Hwatu MCP Server

Your agents are blind without hwatu hwatu is a visual verification harness for coding agents, built as a WebKit daemon. Instead of "looks right to me", your agent gets one-call verified page checks in ~35 ms, pixel-diff scores it can climb, animations as numbers, and headless windows that never steal your focus, at any parallelism.

People who need browser automation tools inside Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in Rust.

VERIFIED ACTIVE

LAST COMMIT 2026-08-25 · ★ 78 · #134 OF 196 MAINTAINED BROWSER AUTOMATION · VERIFIED 2026-08-25

AGPL-3.0 · Rust servers · how we verify → /methodology

01 · Install Hwatu

before you install - you'll need

The README does not document required environment variables for a basic install.

Claude Desktop

Settings → Extensions → Install, then select the https://github.com/hongnoul/hwatu/releases/download/v0.6.0/hwatu-mcp-linux-x86_64.tar.gz .mcpb bundle

02 · 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.

runs as Claude Desktop extension (.mcpb bundle)

repo age created 2026-07-18 - young repo, little track record yet

license AGPL-3.0 - declared in the repository

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

03 · What Hwatu can do

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

Latest releases

v0.7.1 · 2026-08-24

v0.7.1 · v0.7.1 · stage AUR 0.7.0 update (PKGBUILD + .SRCINFO, license AGPL-3.0-only) · gate clone verification on region significance too · handle hwatu --version, bump PKGBUILD to 0.7.0, compare vs claude-in-chrome…

v0.7.0 · 2026-08-01

v0.7.0 · v0.7.0 · HWATU_DISABLE_MEDIA escape hatch for GStreamer wedges · Fix CI: rustfmt, clippy doc lints, rustdoc brackets, md-exempt whitespace gate · Hide CPU-rastered ambient-glow blur layers behind video · page…

v0.6.1 · 2026-07-31

v0.6.1 · format smoothwheel test · guard onboarding CLI dispatch · root-cause the 144Hz scroll cap · land exact CSS viewports under display-free compositor · Chromium-style wheel scroll animation · Default…

04 · Who maintains Hwatu

hwatu is maintained by hongnoul. We track 2 MCP servers from hongnoul - 2 actively maintained, 80 combined GitHub stars, oldest repo from Mar 2026. Full record: all servers from hongnoul.

mit-dining Real-time MIT dining hall menus with dietary filtering across all 6 halls ★ 2

05 · Facts

repository: github.com/hongnoul/hwatu
website: https://github.com/hongnoul/hwatu
category: browser automation - ranked #134 of 196 actively-maintained browser automation servers as of 2026-08-25.
release cadence: 9 releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-08-24)
registry: io.github.hongnoul/hwatu (active, first published 2026-07-25)
packages: mcpb:https://github.com/hongnoul/hwatu/releases/download/v0.6.0/hwatu-mcp-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

06 · Hwatu FAQ

What is Hwatu?

Is Hwatu still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-08-25, its last commit was 2026-08-25 and it shipped 9 releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

07 · Alternatives to Hwatu

Alternatives to Hwatu

Maintained browser automation servers if Hwatu isn't the fit.

Pairs well with

Servers that cover what Hwatu doesn't - only shown when the pairing reason fits the companion.

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