MCP server extension.dev

@extension.dev/mcp

Ship browser extensions to four stores from your AI agent: create, run, test and submit to Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari.

Extension.js is the framework you run. extension.dev is where it ships. This server covers both: the local tools run Extension.js on your machine, and the platform lane takes the build the rest of the way to the stores.

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Install

claude mcp add extension-dev -- npx -y @extension.dev/mcp --features=local,platform

Or install the extension-dev plugin, the MCP server pinned to one published version plus the browser-extension skill, in one step:

/plugin marketplace add extensiondev/skill
/plugin install extension-dev@extensiondev

Other clients take the same server as .mcp.json; every client's block, with a local-only form, is on Install in your client.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "extension-dev": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@extension.dev/mcp",
        "--features=local,platform"
      ]
    }
  }
}

The local tools need no account; the platform tools, on with --features=local,platform, ask for a login the first time they reach extension.dev.

Your first prompt

Create a Chrome and Firefox extension that highlights external links, run it, and prove the content script injected.

The agent scaffolds from a template, starts the dev session, a browser opens with the extension loaded, and extension_assert answers with a verdict instead of a guess. Then:

Submit this build to the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons as a dry run and tell me what is missing.

Ship to four stores

extension_submit sends a built extension into review at the four stores through extension.dev, which holds your store credentials. It defaults to a dry run, and a real submit waits for a workspace owner to approve that exact act on extension.dev: the server never submits or publishes on its own. Reaching the App Store needs no Mac: the Safari lane signs with keys the platform holds encrypted at rest, under the same approval.

The platform tools need a login once. You approve a code at extension.dev/device; the project-scoped token stays on this machine, is never returned to the agent, and lives at most 7 days. No project yet? Request access at extension.dev.

npx -y @extension.dev/mcp login --project <workspace>/<project>

Details under Platform tools.

Watch it work

What it does

Extensions fail silently: content scripts that never inject, panels that never open. These tools give the agent eyes on the live browser.

• Ship: validate the manifest cross-browser, build, share a preview, promote, submit
• Scaffold from 50+ templates, or add a popup, sidebar or content script
• Run the dev server with HMR in every browser below
• See the live DOM, logs from every context, chrome.storage, the loaded extensions
• Act: evaluate code in any context, trigger the action button and commands, reload
• Test: extension_assert answers pass, fail or inconclusive, the last naming the evidence that would settle it

Built on Extension.js, the open source framework extension.dev sponsors. Every engine command runs the project's own extension when the project has one, else the version this server pins (Engine pinning).

Requirements

• Node 22.12 or later.
• A Chromium or Firefox browser, or extension_browsers installs one.
• macOS with Xcode only for a local Safari session; the App Store lane needs no Mac.
• An extension.dev login only for the platform tools.

Browsers

extension_dev opens the extension in the browser you name. The Chromium family and Firefox get HMR, control, eval, inspect and assert, and so does any Chromium or Gecko binary by path. On macOS with Xcode, browser: "safari" builds the app, opens it, reloads it on every save and streams its logs; no eval, no extension_inspect, limits under Safari.

Security

• Local by default. Every local tool runs Extension.js on your machine. The control channel (extension_storage, extension_reload, extension_open, extension_dom_snapshot) is same machine, same user, on unless extension_dev is called with allowControl: false.
• The eval gate. extension_eval stays off until extension_dev is called with allowEval: true. extension_element clicks, fills, reads and waits for one element, and sends trusted mouse and keyboard input (move, press, release, type, key, scroll) that pages read as isTrusted: true, over the debug port with no gate, since it runs no caller code. A session never grows a gate on a second call: call extension_dev again with replace: true.
• What leaves the machine. Nothing until you ask: a shared preview uploads the build it just made, a submit sends the build to extension.dev, a login stores a project-scoped token locally. --no-ship refuses every call that puts something in front of other people.
• Approvals stay human. A real submit, a channel promotion and a share revoke answer approval-required; a workspace owner approves the exact act on extension.dev, the call is repeated with the returned approvalId, and the server never approves anything itself. extension_submit_check carries the reads and the asks under readOnlyHint: true; extension_submit carries the act.
• Untrusted text from pages comes back inside an <untrusted-data-ID> fence, and every tool carries MCP annotations.

Telemetry

extension_create sends one draft_seeded event to us.i.posthog.com after a scaffold (template slug, source and commit, a random per-process id, never a path or a name), and the platform tools send a per-install id header. EXTENSION_DEV_NO_TELEMETRY=1 or DO_NOT_TRACK=1 stops both (payload).

Hosted server

https://mcp.extension.dev/mcp serves the platform reads and promotions over Streamable HTTP: a client connects with the URL alone, signs in at www.extension.dev through OAuth, and gets extension_workspace, extension_project_create, extension_builds, extension_release_status, extension_release_promote and extension_auth (status only). Local tools, publish, submit and share links stay on the stdio server.

claude mcp add --transport http extension-dev https://mcp.extension.dev/mcp

Flags

Flag	Environment variable	Default	Effect
--features=<groups>	EXTENSION_DEV_FEATURES	local	local,platform adds the platform group; platform lists only those
--no-ship	EXTENSION_DEV_NO_SHIP=1	off	Refuses publish, promote, a real submit, a shared preview, a share create or revoke
--project <workspace>/<project>	EXTENSION_DEV_PROJECT	unset	Refuses any call that names another project
none	EXTENSION_DEV_TOKEN	unset	An access token in place of the device login, for CI
none	EXTENSION_DEV_NO_AUTO_OPEN=1	off	Never opens the approval page in the default browser
none	EXTENSION_DEV_NO_TELEMETRY=1 or DO_NOT_TRACK=1	off	Turns off the draft_seeded event and the per-install id header
none	EXTENSION_MCP_CLI_VERSION	this release's pin	The Extension.js version run when the project has no engine of its own
none	EXTENSION_MCP_ENGINE_DIR or EXTENSION_MCP_ENGINE_BIN	unset	Runs every engine command from a compiled Extension.js checkout or one bin file

login, logout, whoami and release promote run headless; see Server flags.

Tools

The local group scaffolds, builds, runs, inspects, drives and asserts; the platform group logs in, shares, promotes, submits and reads builds, releases and approvals. Every tool has a page under the tool reference, generated from the schema the server registers, with its inputs, whether it only reads, the gate it needs and a prompt that reaches for it.

Pair with the skill

This server gives agents hands; @extension.dev/skill gives them judgment: cross-browser rules, silent-failure gotchas, debugging playbooks and the store checklist.

npx skills add extensiondev/skill

Troubleshooting

Every refusal carries a hint naming the next call. The five most common:

• E_TOOL_DISABLED: the tool's group is off, or the call reaches outside this machine in no-ship mode. Add platform to --features, or drop --no-ship, in the client's config, then call again.
• approval-required: have a workspace owner approve the act at the link, then repeat the call with the same arguments and the returned approvalId.
• E_AUTH_REQUIRED or E_AUTH_EXPIRED: the login lives at most 7 days. Run extension_auth (action: "login", project: "<workspace>/<project>"), then call again.
• E_NO_SESSION: nothing is running. Start extension_dev, then extension_wait for ready.
• extension_eval refused: the session started without the gate. Call extension_dev again with allowEval: true and replace: true; reads need no eval.

extension_doctor names the broken leg of a session. After a new version lands a tool may answer E_SERVER_STALE: run /mcp, pick extension-dev, and call again. More under When it fails.

Community

Help and feedback on Discord; templates at templates.extension.dev; Extension.js framework issues at extension-js/extension.js.

License

Apache-2.0 (c) 2026 Cezar Augusto and the extension.dev collaborators. See LICENSE.