debugg-ai-mcp
Zero-Config, Fully AI-Managed End-to-End Testing for all code gen platforms.
Documentation
Debugg AI — MCP Server
AI-powered browser testing via the Model Context Protocol. Point it at any URL (or localhost) and describe what to test — an AI agent browses your app and returns pass/fail with screenshots.
Setup
Requires Node.js 20.20.0 or later (transitive requirement from `posthog-node@^5.26.0`).
Testing `http://localhost:...` URLs requires the `caddy` binary — `check_app_in_browser`,
`probe_page`, and `trigger_crawl` tunnel localhost targets through a local Caddy reverse proxy.
This installs automatically: the `@radically-straightforward/caddy` npm dependency downloads a
pinned Caddy release for your platform during `npm install`/`npx`, same as this project already
does for the `ngrok` binary — nothing to install yourself in the normal case. If that download
never ran (`npm install --ignore-scripts`, an offline/air-gapped install), point `CADDY_BIN` at
your own install (`brew install caddy` / `apt install caddy` / see
caddyserver.com/docs/install) — missing it surfaces as a
clear error on the first localhost-URL call, not a silent hang. Public-URL calls, every
non-browser tool, and `test_suite {action:"run"}` (which uses its own dedicated tunnel and
bypasses Caddy entirely) don't need it either way.
Get an API key at debugg.ai, then add to your MCP client config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"debugg-ai": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@debugg-ai/debugg-ai-mcp"],
"env": {
"DEBUGGAI_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
}
}
}
}Or with Docker:
docker run -i --rm --init -e DEBUGGAI_API_KEY=your_api_key quinnosha/debugg-ai-mcpThe `Dockerfile`'s `npm install` step would pick up `caddy` the same automatic way local installs
do, in principle — but as of this writing the `Dockerfile` doesn't `COPY` several directories the
build now needs (`handlers`, `tools`, `types`, `config`) and still references a `tunnels/`
directory that no longer exists, so a fresh build likely fails before that matters. That's a
pre-existing gap, unrelated to Caddy. The currently published `quinnosha/debugg-ai-mcp` image
predates the Caddy dependency regardless — localhost-URL calls to
`check_app_in_browser`/`probe_page`/`trigger_crawl` will fail with `CaddyBinaryNotFoundError`
inside that image until it's rebuilt (Dockerfile fixed) and republished, or `CADDY_BIN` points at
one baked in separately. Public-URL calls, the non-browser tools, and `test_suite {action:"run"}`
are unaffected either way.
Tools
The server exposes 8 tools: three Browser tools plus one action-based tool per managed entity. The headline tools are `check_app_in_browser` (full AI agent) and `probe_page` (lightweight no-LLM page probe). The rest — `project`, `environment`, `test_suite`, `test_case`, `executions` — each take an `action` discriminator (e.g. `{"action":"list"}`) that selects the operation. Destructive `delete` actions require confirmation (an elicitation prompt where supported, otherwise `confirm: true`).
Browser
`check_app_in_browser`
Runs an AI browser agent against your app. The agent navigates, interacts, and reports back with screenshots. Localhost URLs are auto-tunneled via ngrok.
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `description` | string required | What to test (natural language) |
| `url` | string required | Target URL — `http://localhost:3000` is auto-tunneled |
| `environmentId` | string | UUID of a specific environment |
| `credentialId` | string | UUID of a specific credential |
| `credentialRole` | string | Pick a credential by role (e.g. `admin`, `guest`) |
| `username` | string | Username for login (ephemeral — not persisted) |
| `password` | string | Password for login (ephemeral — not persisted) |
| `loginCredentials` | array | Accounts for logins the agent hits during the task — `[{username, password, label?}]` |
| `useEnvironmentCredentials` | boolean | Default `true`. `false` forbids auto-filling the environment's stored credentials; with no account named it means do not log in at all |
| `freshSession` | boolean | Default `false`. `true` forces a real login instead of reusing the warm session held for that account |
| `auth` | object | Auth precondition — `{precondition, entryUrl, deepUrl, environmentId, username, password}` |
| `repoName` | string | Override auto-detected git repo name (e.g. `my-org/my-repo`) |
One focused check per call. The agent has a ~25-step internal budget; split broader suites across multiple calls.
Credentials: pass them as parameters, not prose
Naming an account only in `description` does not make the agent use it — it falls back to the environment's stored credential, and the app's rejection of the wrong account comes back looking like an application failure. Anything you pass as a parameter beats the environment default for every login in the run, not just the first:
- `username` / `password` (or `credentialId` / `credentialRole`) — the run's identity.
- `auth.username` / `auth.password` — pins the precondition login when you also use `auth.precondition: "login"`.
- `loginCredentials` — accounts for a login form the agent reaches part-way through the task. This is the one for flows like *set a password → get bounced to sign-in → log in as the account you just created*, where splitting into separate calls would lose browser state.
Set `useEnvironmentCredentials: false` when a silent fallback to the default test user would invalidate the check.
Checking a page that needs no login at all? Pass `useEnvironmentCredentials: false` and name no account. That combination means exactly what it says — *do not log in* — and the run skips authentication entirely instead of hunting for a login form. Use it for public pages, marketing sites, docs, and anything pre-auth. It is also faster: on the default (`auto`) the agent will follow a "Log in" link off your page and try the environment's stored account before it evaluates anything.
Session reuse: why a check can report "no login form"
Runs don't log in every time. After a verified login the backend captures that account's session and restores it on the next run for the same identity, which skips the login entirely — that's why a check can legitimately come back with `submitted: false` and no login form: it was already signed in. A restored run reports itself in `logins` with `reason: "restored_session"`, so you can tell it apart from a run that genuinely found no form.
Sessions are keyed per account, so naming a different account never reuses somebody else's. Two ways to bypass reuse:
- `freshSession: true` on a single call — log in for real this once, then re-capture. Use it when the login flow *is* what you're checking, when you suspect the stored session is stale, or when the app's only route between personas is a logout.
- `environment` tool, `action: "clearSessions"` — invalidate the stored sessions so subsequent runs log in. Narrow with `username` / `credentialId`; unscoped clears require confirmation because every account on the environment then re-authenticates.
Use `action: "sessions"` to see what an environment is currently holding and whether each would be reused.
Results report the identity actually used, so a wrong one is visible rather than masquerading as a broken app:
"logins": [
{ "username": "qa+invitefix@example.com", "source": "task", "submitted": true, "authenticated": true }
],
"credentialWarning": {
"requested": "qa+invitefix@example.com",
"used": ["qatest123@example.com"],
"message": "This run signed in with an environment default credential even though '…' was specified. …"
}`source` is `task` | `explicit` | `credential_id` (an account you named) or `env` | `env_default` (the environment's stored account). `credentialWarning` appears only when you named an account and an environment default was used anyway. `loginError` appears when a named account could not be resolved and the run declined to substitute a different one.
Every successful run returns a `browserSession` block alongside the screenshot — presigned S3 URLs for the captured HAR (full network trace) and console log (every JS console message). Use them to detect refetch loops, hydration errors, and other runtime issues that pass type-checks and unit tests:
"browserSession": {
"harUrl": "https://...session_18139.har?X-Amz-...",
"consoleLogUrl": "https://...session_18139_console.json?X-Amz-...",
"recordingUrl": "https://...session_18139_recording.webm?X-Amz-...",
"harStatus": "downloaded",
"consoleLogStatus": "downloaded",
"harRedactionStatus": "redacted",
"consoleLogRedactionStatus": "redacted"
}URLs are short-lived presigned S3 — refetch the parent execution via `executions {action:"get", uuid}` to renew. `harStatus` / `consoleLogStatus` disambiguate `'downloaded'` (URL fetchable), `'not_available'` (page emitted nothing), `'failed'` (capture broke). On a fresh run the URLs are commonly `null` because capture uploads async after the agent finishes — poll `executions {action:"get", uuid: executionId}` until status reaches `'downloaded'`. Authorization / Cookie / `token`/`secret`/`api_key` headers are scrubbed server-side before the artifacts are persisted.
`trigger_crawl`
Fires a server-side browser-agent crawl to populate the project's knowledge graph. Localhost URLs tunnel automatically. Returns `{executionId, status, targetUrl, durationMs, outcome?, crawlSummary?, knowledgeGraph?, browserSession?}` with `knowledgeGraph.imported === true` on successful ingestion. The `browserSession` block (HAR + console-log URLs, same shape as above) is also present on completed crawls.
`probe_page`
Lightweight no-LLM batch page probe. Pass 1-20 URLs; each navigates, settles on content (the DOM going quiet, bounded — never on network silence, which a live app never reaches), and returns rendered state — screenshot + page metadata + structured console errors + network summary. No agent loop, no LLM cost, no scenario assertions. Use it for "did I just break /settings?", multi-route smoke after a refactor, CI per-PR sweeps, and quick is-it-up checks where `check_app_in_browser`'s 60-150s agent loop is overkill.
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `targets` | array required | 1-20 entries: `[{url, waitForSelector?, waitForLoadState?, timeoutMs?}]` |
| `targets[].url` | string required | Public URL or localhost (auto-tunneled) |
| `targets[].waitForLoadState` | enum | `'domcontentloaded'` (default, + a bounded content settle) / `'load'` (also blocks on third-party embeds) / `'networkidle'` (accepted, never issued — a live site's network does not go idle) |
| `targets[].waitForSelector` | string | Optional CSS selector to wait for after navigation |
| `targets[].timeoutMs` | number | Per-URL timeout, 1000-30000 (default 10000) |
| `includeHtml` | boolean | Return raw HTML in each result (default false) |
| `captureScreenshots` | boolean | Return one PNG per target (default true) |
All targets in a batch share one session tunnel, but only same-port (or all-public) batches share a single backend execution — 5 URLs on one port in one call is dramatically faster than 5 parallel single-URL calls. A batch that mixes multiple local ports decomposes into one sequential backend execution per port group (still one call, still one merged `results[]` in your original order, but N backend round-trips instead of one — slower, not rejected). Per-URL `error` field preserves batch resilience: a single failed target doesn't fail the others.
`networkSummary` aggregation key is `origin + pathname` — refetch loops (`?n=0..4` repeatedly hitting the same endpoint) collapse into a single entry with the count, so `/api/poll` showing up with `count: 47` is the actionable "infinite refetch loop" signal users originally asked for.
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}
Pass optional `page` (1-indexed, default 1) and `pageSize` (default 20, max 200; oversized values are clamped). No response is ever silently truncated.
## Resources
Alongside tools, the server exposes the read-only entities as MCP **resources**
so clients can browse and @-mention them as context:
| URI | What |
|---|---|
| `debugg-ai://projects` | All projects (first page) |
| `debugg-ai://environments` | Environments for the auto-detected project |
| `debugg-ai://executions` | Recent executions (first page) |
| `debugg-ai://project/{uuid}` | One project, full detail |
| `debugg-ai://environment/{uuid}` | One environment (credentials inline, passwords redacted) |
| `debugg-ai://execution/{uuid}` | One execution, full node detail + artifact links |
Reads dispatch to the same handlers as the `project` / `environment` /
`executions` tools, so the data and auth are identical. Resources are additive —
clients without resource support keep using the tools.
### Security invariants
- Passwords are write-only. They never appear in any response body from any tool.
- Tunnel URLs (`*.ngrok.debugg.ai`) are stripped from all browser-agent responses, including agent-authored text.
- 404s from the backend surface as `isError: true` with `{error: 'NotFound', ...}`, never as thrown exceptions.
- Missing `DEBUGGAI_API_KEY` surfaces as a structured tool error on first invocation — the server still registers and lists tools normally.
## Migration to v3.0.0 (action-based tools)
v3 consolidated the 20 per-verb tools into 8 action-based tools. Old tool → new `tool {action}`:
| Removed | Replacement |
|---------|-------------|
| `search_projects` | `project {action:"get"}` / `project {action:"list"}` |
| `create_project` | `project {action:"create"}` |
| `update_project`, `delete_project` | **Dropped** — use the DebuggAI web app |
| `search_environments` | `environment {action:"get"}` / `{action:"list"}` |
| `create_environment` / `update_environment` / `delete_environment` | `environment {action:"create"\|"update"\|"delete"}` |
| `create_test_suite` / `search_test_suites` / `run_test_suite` / `get_test_suite_results` / `delete_test_suite` | `test_suite {action:"create"\|"list"\|"run"\|"results"\|"delete"}` |
| `create_test_case` / `update_test_case` / `delete_test_case` | `test_case {action:"create"\|"update"\|"delete"}` |
| `search_executions` | `executions {action:"get"\|"list"}` |
| `trigger_crawl` `headless` param | **Dropped** — always headless |
`delete` actions now require confirmation (elicitation prompt, or `confirm: true`). Clients pick up the new surface on MCP restart.
## Migration from v1.x (breaking change in v2.0.0)
v2 collapsed a 22-tool surface to 11. Old-tool → new-tool mapping:
| Removed | Replacement |
|---------|-------------|
| `list_projects`, `get_project` | `search_projects` (uuid mode vs filter mode) |
| `list_environments`, `get_environment` | `search_environments` |
| `list_credentials`, `get_credential` | `search_environments` — credentials inline on each env |
| `create_credential` | `create_environment({credentials: [...]})` seed, or `update_environment({addCredentials: [...]})` |
| `update_credential` | `update_environment({updateCredentials: [{uuid, ...patch}]})` |
| `delete_credential` | `update_environment({removeCredentialIds: [uuid]})` |
| `list_teams`, `list_repos` | `create_project({teamName, repoName})` — name resolution with ambiguity handling |
| `list_executions`, `get_execution` | `search_executions` |
| `cancel_execution` | **Dropped** — backend spin-down is automatic |
Response-shape changes: the bare `count` field on list responses is gone — use `pageInfo.totalCount`.
## Configuration
| Env var | Required | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| `DEBUGGAI_API_KEY` | yes | Backend API key. Aliases: `DEBUGGAI_API_TOKEN`, `DEBUGGAI_JWT_TOKEN`. |
| `DEBUGGAI_API_URL` | no | Backend base URL. Defaults to `https://api.debugg.ai`. |
| `DEBUGGAI_TOKEN_TYPE` | no | `token` (default) or `bearer`. |
| `DEBUGGAI_EVAL_TEMPLATE` | no | Override the App Evaluation workflow **slug** that `check_app_in_browser` dispatches to. Defaults to `flow/e2es/app-eval`. Dispatch pins to this slug so a backend template rename can't break it. |
| `LOG_LEVEL` | no | `error` / `warn` / `info` (default) / `debug`. |
| `POSTHOG_API_KEY` | no | Override the embedded telemetry project key (e.g. private fork). |
| `DEBUGGAI_TELEMETRY_DISABLED` | no | Set to `1` / `true` / `yes` / `on` to disable telemetry entirely. |DEBUGGAI_API_KEY=your_api_key
## Remote / HTTP transport (optional)
By default the server speaks **stdio** (local `npx`). It can instead run as a
hosted, multi-user remote MCP over **stateless Streamable HTTP** + OAuth:DEBUGGAI_MCP_TRANSPORT=http PORT=3000 DEBUGGAI_TOKEN_TYPE=bearer npx -y @debugg-ai/debugg-ai-mcp@latest
It is an OAuth **Resource Server**: every `POST /mcp` needs
`Authorization: Bearer `; missing/invalid tokens get a `401` with a
`WWW-Authenticate` pointing at the RFC 9728 metadata, and clients run the OAuth
flow against the advertised authorization server. The bearer is request-scoped —
`api.debugg.ai` validates it.
| Endpoint | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `POST /mcp` | MCP Streamable HTTP (bearer-protected) |
| `GET /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource` | RFC 9728 metadata (authorization server discovery) |
| `GET /health` | Load-balancer / ECS health check |
| Env var | Default | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| `DEBUGGAI_MCP_TRANSPORT` | `stdio` | Set to `http` for the remote transport |
| `PORT` | `3000` | HTTP listen port |
| `DEBUGGAI_MCP_PUBLIC_URL` | `https://mcp.debugg.ai` | This server's public resource URL (RFC 9728 `resource`) |
| `DEBUGGAI_OAUTH_ISSUER` | `https://auth.debugg.ai` | Authorization server advertised to clients |
| `DEBUGGAI_TOKEN_TYPE` | `token` | Set to `bearer` so OAuth tokens forward as `Authorization: Bearer` |
stdio installs need none of these.
**Multi-replica deployments (go/no-go before rollout):** tunnel state (the ngrok session tunnel,
its Caddy instance, and its port-route lock) is in-process, keyed per caller by a hash of the
bearer token — there is no cross-process coordination. Running several replicas behind a plain
round-robin load balancer means one caller's calls can land on different replicas and mint one
tunnel **per replica they hit** instead of one for the whole session (extra ngrok cost, bounded by
replica count, self-healing via the existing 55-minute idle auto-shutoff — never a cross-session
correctness bug, since any single tool call stays on one replica for its whole duration). To get
the intended "one tunnel per session" behavior on a multi-replica HTTP deployment, configure
**session-affine routing** at the load balancer (sticky/consistent-hash keyed on the same identity
`getSessionKey()` derives — in practice, the caller's `Authorization` bearer token). See
`docs/local-tunnel-multiplexer-architecture-2026-07-31.md` §2.1 for the full reasoning and the
honest degrade path if this isn't configured.
## Telemetry
The MCP server ships with telemetry enabled by default — an embedded write-only PostHog project key (`phc_*`) so the team can observe cache hit rates, poll cadence, tunnel reliability, and other operational metrics across the install base. Captured events:
| Event | When |
|---|---|
| `tool.executed` / `tool.failed` | Per tool call |
| `workflow.executed` | Per browser-agent execution (carries `pollCount`, `durationMs`, `finalIntervalMs`) |
| `tunnel.provisioned` / `tunnel.provision_retry` / `tunnel.stopped` | Per tunnel lifecycle event |
| `template.lookup` / `project.lookup` | Cache hit/miss with `durationMs` on cold-call |
Privacy posture:
- The distinct ID is `SHA-256(api_key).slice(0, 16)` — never the raw key, no PII.
- `phc_*` keys are write-only by PostHog convention; safe to embed in source.
- Set `DEBUGGAI_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1` to opt out entirely (resolves to a no-op provider; no events leave the process).
The active mode is logged at boot:Telemetry enabled (PostHog, DebuggAI default project). Set DEBUGGAI_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 to opt out.
Telemetry enabled (PostHog, custom POSTHOG_API_KEY)
Telemetry disabled (DEBUGGAI_TELEMETRY_DISABLED is set)
## Local Developmentnpm install
npm run build
npm run test:e2e # real end-to-end evals against the backend
The eval suite spawns the built MCP server as a subprocess, exercises every tool against a real backend, and writes per-flow artifacts to `scripts/evals/artifacts//`. See `scripts/evals/flows/` for the individual scenarios.
### MCP registration: `debugg-ai-local` vs `debugg-ai`
This repo ships a `.mcp.json` that registers a **project-scoped** server named `debugg-ai-local` pointing at `node dist/index.js` — the freshly-built local code. It only activates when Claude Code's working directory is this repo.
Your other projects should use the **user-scoped** `debugg-ai` registration that pulls from the published npm package:npm run mcp:global # registers debugg-ai in ~/.claude.json to npx -y @debugg-ai/debugg-ai-mcp
After editing code here, run `npm run mcp:local` (which just rebuilds) so the next invocation of `debugg-ai-local` picks up your changes.
## Links
[Dashboard](https://app.debugg.ai) · [Docs](https://debugg.ai/docs) · [Issues](https://github.com/debugg-ai/debugg-ai-mcp/issues) · [Discord](https://debugg.ai/discord)
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Apache-2.0 License © 2025 DebuggAIFrequently asked questions
What is debugg-ai-mcp?
debugg-ai-mcp is Zero-Config, Fully AI-Managed End-to-End Testing for all code gen platforms.
How do I install debugg-ai-mcp?
Open the GitHub repository and follow its README. Most MCP servers are added to your client's MCP config, then called by your agent.
Is debugg-ai-mcp open source?
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