Kwin MCP

Model Context Protocol server for Linux desktop GUI automation on KDE Plasma 6 Wayland

People who work with accessibility, at spi2 and computer use and want it reachable from Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in Python.

VERIFIED ACTIVE

LAST COMMIT 2026-09-11 · ★ 2 · #249 OF 255 MAINTAINED BROWSER AUTOMATION · VERIFIED 2026-09-18

MIT · Python servers · how we verify → /methodology

01 · Evidence

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

repository a fork of another project - check the upstream repo before trusting releases

repo age created 2026-08-31 - young repo, little track record yet

license MIT - declared in the repository

registry namespace io.github.VibeProgramm is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner

02 · What Kwin MCP can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

Limitations (from the README)

- US QWERTY keyboard layout only -- keyboard_type supports US QWERTY only. For non-ASCII text (Korean, CJK, etc.), use keyboard_type_unicode, which requires wtype or wl-clipboard installed. - KDE Plasma 6+ required -- Older KDE versions or other Wayland compositors (GNOME, Sway) are not supported. - AT-SPI2 availability varies -- Some applications may not fully expose their widget tree via AT-SPI2. - Touch input is E

Latest releases

v0.9.0 · 2026-09-08

kwin-mcp 0.9.0 hardens the EIS input pipeline end to end: device lifecycle, reconnect recovery, held-state replay, and delivery semantics are now verified against the real libei 1.6.0 ABI, with live-verified fixes for…

v0.8.2 · 2026-09-07

review follow-ups - Arch default for at-spi fallback, input-backend degradation logging, test cleanups · review follow-ups - Arch default for at-spi fallback, input-backend degradation logging, test cleanups…

v0.8.1 · 2026-09-06

port upstream #42 fixes (EIS error contract, at-spi launcher, screenshot D-Bus-first) · What this fork fixes vs upstream (isac322/kwin-mcp, unmaintained since May 2026) · MCP Python SDK 2.x - fresh installs broken…

03 · Who maintains Kwin MCP

kwin-mcp is maintained by vibeprogramm. It's the only MCP server we track from this author; the repo dates to Aug 2026.

04 · Facts

repository: github.com/vibeprogramm/kwin-mcp
category: browser automation - ranked #249 of 255 actively-maintained browser automation servers as of 2026-09-18.
release cadence: 4 releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-09-08)
registry: io.github.VibeProgramm/kwin-mcp (active, first published 2026-09-07 · 3 versions)

05 · Kwin MCP FAQ

What is Kwin MCP?

Model Context Protocol server for Linux desktop GUI automation on KDE Plasma 6 Wayland

Is Kwin MCP still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-09-18, its last commit was 2026-09-11 and it shipped 4 releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

06 · Alternatives to Kwin MCP

Alternatives to Kwin MCP

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Pairs well with

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