Periscope MCP

An MCP server that gives AI agents 74 Playwright tools to QA, test, and analyze web apps - static sites, SPAs, and apps behind a login - returning hard verdicts, not screenshots to squint at.

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 2026-07-18 · ★ 10 · #187 OF 196 MAINTAINED BROWSER AUTOMATION · VERIFIED 2026-08-25

AGPL-3.0 · 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 2026-07-02 - young repo, little track record yet

license AGPL-3.0 - declared in the repository

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

02 · What Periscope MCP can do

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

Latest releases

v0.10.4 · 2026-07-07

Sharpens the two web tools where Periscope has a structural edge - a real browser and an authenticated crawler. · web_fetch - readable Markdown + real teeth · Readable Markdown by default via trafilatura: structure…

v0.10.3 · 2026-07-07

Two dogfooding reports from auditing real Astro sites - both fixed. · Fixed · - Non-deterministic crawl order made re-tests incomparable · With max_pages smaller than the site, consecutive test_project runs picked a…

v0.10.2 · 2026-07-06

Cross-server lesson from the glovebox-mcp sibling - its observe/settle_ms pattern is "cleaner than periscope's separate screenshot-after." Issue #21. · Added · observe param on the action tools - click_element…

03 · Who maintains Periscope MCP

periscope-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.

glovebox-mcp Sandboxed computer-use for AI agents: drive real browser + desktop apps in nested X11 windows ★ 13

04 · Facts

repository: github.com/segentic-lab/periscope-mcp
website: https://github.com/segentic-lab/periscope-mcp
category: browser automation - ranked #187 of 196 actively-maintained browser automation servers as of 2026-08-25.
release cadence: 10+ releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-07-07)
registry: io.github.segentic-lab/periscope-mcp (active, first published 2026-07-03 · 12 versions)

05 · Periscope MCP FAQ

What is Periscope MCP?

An MCP server that gives AI agents 74 Playwright tools to QA, test, and analyze web apps - static sites, SPAs, and apps behind a login - returning hard verdicts, not screenshots to squint at.

Is Periscope MCP still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-08-25, its last commit was 2026-07-18 and it shipped 10+ releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

06 · Alternatives to Periscope MCP

Alternatives to Periscope MCP

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Pairs well with

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