Arc Control (macOS)

io.github.DB-25/arc-control-mcp

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
No secrets
★ 2 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-05
Health score 61

About Arc Control (macOS)

Arc Control (macOS) is an MCP server published by the GitHub account DB-25. Arc browser MCP for macOS: agent window, snapshots, DevTools input, guardrails

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package arc-control-mcp at version 0.4.0.

It asks for no keys or passwords.

Version 0.4.0 was published on 5 October 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 7 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`ARC_MCP_LABEL`	No	No	Names this agent's tab ownership. Two agents with different labels never see each other's owned tabs. Defaults to "default".
`ARC_MCP_SPACE`	No	No	With ARC_MCP_WINDOW=space, the Arc space new tabs open into, when a space with that name exists. Arc will not let a script create a space, so make it by hand. Defaults to "Agent".
`ARC_MCP_STATE_DIR`	No	No	Directory where per-session tab ownership is recorded, so a restarted agent can clean up the tabs its previous run left behind. Defaults to ~/Library/Application Support/arc-control-mcp.
`ARC_MCP_WINDOW`	No	No	"dedicated" keeps agent tabs in one separate agent window, never the user's own. "space" puts them in the Agent space of the user's window. Defaults to "dedicated".
`ARC_MCP_WINDOW_PLACEMENT`	No	No	Where the agent window goes once, at creation: "auto" (largest non-main display, else where Arc puts it), "second-display", "minimized" (experimental) or "none". Needs Accessibility. Defaults to "auto".
`ARC_MCP_IDLE_MS`	No	No	How many milliseconds the user must have been idle before the server does anything visible. 0 turns the activity gate off. Defaults to 1500.
`ARC_MCP_IDLE_WAIT_MS`	No	No	How many milliseconds to wait for that pause before failing with userActive true. Defaults to 15000.
`ARC_MCP_ARC_DATA_DIR`	No	No	Directory the local data tools (sidebar_tree, find_stale_tabs, search_archive, search_history) read Arc's files from. Defaults to ~/Library/Application Support/Arc.
`ARC_MCP_ALLOW_HISTORY`	No	No	Set to 1 to let search_history run. Off by default, and any other value leaves it off.
`ARC_MCP_CDP`	No	No	Set to 0 to disable the DevTools engine (trusted input, screenshots, console and network capture). On by default, and inert until Arc is launched with --remote-debugging-port.
`ARC_MCP_CDP_PORT`	No	No	The DevTools port to probe on 127.0.0.1. The host is fixed. Defaults to 9222.
`ARC_MCP_ALLOWED_ORIGINS`	No	No	Guardrail. Comma list of origins the agent may touch (host, *.host, scheme://host[:port], file://, about:). Anything not listed is refused. Unset means no allow list.
`ARC_MCP_BLOCKED_ORIGINS`	No	No	Guardrail. Comma list of origins the agent may not touch. Wins over the allow list. Unset means no block list.
`ARC_MCP_BLOCK_READS`	No	No	Set to 1 to apply the origin lists to read tools as well as changing ones. Off by default.
`ARC_MCP_READ_ONLY`	No	No	Set to 1 to expose only the read-only tools. Off by default.
`ARC_MCP_AUDIT_LOG`	No	No	Path of a file that gets one JSON line per changing call (time, tool, tab, origin, ok, error), never typed values or script code. Unset means no audit log.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/DB-25/arc-control-mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for no secrets
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account DB-25
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	arc-control-mcp@0.4.0 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 48 files in arc-control-mcp@0.4.0: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 48 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 61 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity9 / 40

2 GitHub stars, 52 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-05, last release 2026-10-05, 59 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

0 closed of 0 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

0 forks, 0 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.DB-25/arc-control-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account DB-25
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account DB-25. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	npm `arc-control-mcp` 0.4.0 (stdio)
Version	0.4.0
Published	2026-10-05
Last updated	2026-10-05
Source repository	https://github.com/DB-25/arc-control-mcp
Website	https://github.com/DB-25/arc-control-mcp
Category	Browser automation (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "arc-control-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "arc-control-mcp@0.4.0"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

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For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-db-25-arc-control-mcp.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.