Is Puppeteer safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Puppeteer on public evidence — it is currently abandoned, no known advisories against the current release, its declared dependencies reach: browser. Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install Puppeteer?

Don't. This capability has been discontinued by its author or publisher and is not scored or recommended. If you are already running it, `npx tashan-cli doctor` will flag it and name what to move to.

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Puppeteer

npm ✓ Anthropic · official

MCP server for browser automation using Puppeteer

Works with: Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cline, Windsurf, VS Code (installable)
installable: each client documents how to load an MCP server of this type — that is the client's promise, not a claim verified against this capability

Category: Browser & Web — see all ranked ›

Work: Browser automation

Who it is for: Software engineer · Operations

Discontinued — do not install. The author's own notice: “MCP server for browser automation using Puppeteer” It stays listed so anyone already running it can find this page, and so npx tashan-cli doctor can warn about it. It is not scored and does not appear in any ranking.

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Adoption: 28k/wk
Freshness: 17.0
Evidence coverage: 100% of the inputs this score can use
Health: abandoned
License: MIT

Security audit

Every finding is shown in full — which advisory, the version that fixes it, and the exact command run at install time. Nothing in this audit is behind a licence.

No known advisoriesclearchecked against OSV for 2025.5.12 — this package, not its dependency tree

2 vulnerable dependenciesinstalls@modelcontextprotocol/[email protected], [email protected] — GHSA-w48q-cv73-mx4w, GHSA-7pqw-9j4j-h8q3, GHSA-jmr9-qjv8-65gv · found by resolving all 116 packages this installs and querying OSV at the version each resolves to, not by name

Drives a browserfrom declared dependencies

Can carry remote content into your agentit can pull third-party text into the model's context — treat what it returns as untrusted input

No build provenanceno attestation — the published artifact cannot be traced to its source

What changed recently

2026-08-05 @modelcontextprotocol/server-puppeteer was marked deprecated on npm The publisher is telling installers to stop using it.

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Measured 2026-09-13 · scorer s5 · how · something wrong here?