# Docs

- [Introduction](/docs): What chrome-mcp is, why it drives your real Chrome instead of a fresh Chromium, and where to start.
- [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart): Register the MCP server, load the extension, and pair it. Three steps, one paste.
- [Agent setup](/docs/agent-setup): The exact instructions an AI agent follows to install and verify chrome-mcp on a machine. Hand it the URL and it does the rest.
- [Guides](/docs/guides): Multi-tab batches, iframes and shadow roots, observers, snapshot diffs, role locators, auth walls and PDF printing.

- **Reference**
- Tools
  - [Tools reference](/docs/tools): Every tool chrome-mcp exposes over MCP, with arguments and examples. Generated from the 0.9.11 catalog.
  - [Tabs](/docs/tools/tabs): Open, list, focus and close tabs in the real Chrome window.
  - [Navigation](/docs/tools/navigation): Move a tab between pages and wait for the page to settle.
  - [Interaction](/docs/tools/interaction): Click, type, select and scroll. Target by CSS selector, snapshot ref, or role and accessible name.
  - [Reading](/docs/tools/reading): Get the page back as text, markdown, HTML, an accessibility snapshot, a screenshot or a PDF.
  - [State and scripting](/docs/tools/state): Cookies, storage, downloads and JavaScript evaluation.
  - [Observers](/docs/tools/observers): Console output, network requests and native dialogs. Requires --enable-observers.
  - [Session and artifacts](/docs/tools/session): Backend status, sign-in wall detection, and where downloads, results and screenshots are stored.
  - [Batch](/docs/tools/batch): Run many tool calls in one request, in parallel or in series.
  - [Other](/docs/tools/other): Tools not yet categorised.
- [Security](/docs/security): Deny-all by default. Domain allowlist, mutation and eval gates, redaction, the audit log, and the pairing token.
- [Architecture](/docs/architecture): The build blueprint: three worlds, one executor interface, the wire protocol, the full tool surface, the extension manifest and the security model.
- [Compare](/docs/compare): How chrome-mcp differs from Playwright MCP, Puppeteer MCP and Browser Use, and when you would pick each.

- **Project**
- [Develop](/docs/develop): Build from source, run the tests, and load the extension from a git clone.
- [Changelog](/docs/changelog): Every release of @mehmoodqureshi/chrome-mcp, newest first.
- [Privacy policy](/docs/privacy): What the MCP Extension for Chrome does with page content, where data goes, and what it never sends anywhere.