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Description

Giving claude code access to the browser.

Example location – anything outside ~/.config/BraveSoftware is fine

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/claude-code/brave-persistent

To start from your current cookies, copy once and never touch the source again:

cp -a ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/. ~/.local/share/claude-code/brave-persistent/
- (On most Linux distros that ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser path is Brave’s default profile home.)

Remove the current entry

claude mcp remove playwright-brave

Re-add with --user-data-dir pointing at the new folder

claude mcp add-json playwright-brave \
'{
  "type": "stdio",
  "command": "npx",
  "args": [
    "@playwright/mcp@latest",
    "--browser", "chromium",
    "--executable-path", "/usr/bin/brave-browser",
    "--user-data-dir", "/home/anthony/.local/share/claude-code/brave-persistent"
  ]
}'

Test it out:

1	claude --allowedTools mcp__playwright-brave__browser_navigate -p "can you open a browser using playwright-brave mcp and close any existing tabs"

Sources

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