Glovebox MCP
A sandboxed computer-use MCP server - let an AI agent drive a real browser and desktop apps (mouse, keyboard, screenshots, vision grounding), confined to a nested X11 window so it can never touch your real screen, files, or other apps.
People who need browser automation tools inside Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in Python.
VERIFIED ACTIVE
LAST COMMIT 2026-07-07 · ★ 13 · #186 OF 196 MAINTAINED BROWSER AUTOMATION · VERIFIED 2026-08-25
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.
repo age created 2026-07-01 - young repo, little track record yet
license MIT - declared in the repository
registry namespace io.github.segentic-lab is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner
02 · What Glovebox MCP can do
Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.
Latest releases
v0.2.0 · 2026-07-07
The honesty release. The sophisticated core (Xephyr multi-instance sandboxing, observe/settle_ms one-call act-and-verify, selectable vision grounding) is unchanged - this release wraps it in the engineering hygiene it…
03 · Who maintains Glovebox MCP
glovebox-mcp is maintained by segentic-lab. We track 4 MCP servers from segentic-lab - 3 actively maintained, 25 combined GitHub stars, oldest repo from Jul 2026. Full record: all servers from segentic-lab.
04 · Facts
- repository
- github.com/segentic-lab/glovebox-mcp
- category
- browser automation - ranked #186 of 196 actively-maintained browser automation servers as of 2026-08-25.
- release cadence
- 1 release in the last 90 days (latest 2026-07-07)
- registry
- io.github.segentic-lab/glovebox-mcp (active, first published 2026-07-07)
05 · Glovebox MCP FAQ
What is Glovebox MCP?
A sandboxed computer-use MCP server - let an AI agent drive a real browser and desktop apps (mouse, keyboard, screenshots, vision grounding), confined to a nested X11 window so it can never touch your real screen, files, or other apps.
Is Glovebox MCP still maintained?
Yes - as of 2026-08-25, its last commit was 2026-07-07 and it shipped 1 release in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.
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