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• My browser tool returned "[object Promise]" as a webpage. One grep later, 10 more tools had the same bug.
  1 project | dev.to | 4 Jun 2026

  safari-mcp is an MCP server that drives the real macOS Safari — the user's actual logged-in browser — so AI coding agents can navigate, read, fill forms, take screenshots, all 80-some tools of it. The way it talks to Safari is AppleScript's do JavaScript command. You hand AppleScript a string of JavaScript, it runs it inside the page, and gives you back the result. safari-mcp wraps that in a runJS(...) helper.

• I had a focus guard. macOS Tahoe walked through it three times.
  1 project | dev.to | 2 Jun 2026

  That's focus theft, and it's the single most enraging thing a "background" automation tool can do. The whole promise of Safari MCP is that your agent drives the real Safari you're already logged into — while you keep working in another app. If it yanks the foreground every few calls, that promise is broken.

• My agent could see the dropdown. It just couldn't pick anything.
  1 project | dev.to | 24 May 2026

  This is a story about three layers of DOM that don't talk to each other, and what safari_select_option had to learn in v2.11.3 of Safari MCP to reach across them.

• Why element.click() Isn't a Click
  1 project | dev.to | 17 May 2026

  I can't yet prove it's an OS change rather than something I'm still missing — so it's tracked in the open as issue #29, with the full repro and everything ruled out. If you've automated macOS UI and have a theory, that thread's the place.

• My AI agent saved the first paragraph and the last. It dropped 41 in between.
  1 project | dev.to | 12 May 2026

  Safari MCP is the macOS-native browser automation tool I maintain. One of the things it has to do is fill rich-text editors — Quill, ProseMirror, Lexical, the React-controlled stuff Featured.com uses, and a dozen variations.

• An AI agent overwrote two of my browser tabs. The fix took three releases.
  1 project | dev.to | 7 May 2026

  I had Safari open with a Chatwoot Meta dashboard in one tab and an n8n executions view in another — both with unsaved state, both in the middle of real work. In a third tab, my own tab, my agent was supposed to be testing a new feature in the MCP server I maintain (Safari MCP).

• LinkedIn Quietly Migrated From ProseMirror to Quill — and Broke Every Browser Automation Tool That Touched the Composer
  1 project | dev.to | 3 May 2026

  The fix shipped in safari-mcp@2.10.2. Source on GitHub.

• When GitHub Actions Goes Silent: The Pending-Forever Bug I Hit Shipping My MCP Server to npm
  2 projects | dev.to | 28 Apr 2026

  I have an open-source MCP server. I tag a release, push, GitHub Actions builds, npm publishes, MCP Registry updates. That's the contract. It worked for v2.7.6 through v2.8.4.

• Show HN: Safari MCP – Native macOS browser automation (80 tools)
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2026
• 7 Things I Learned Building a Safari Browser Automation Tool That Chrome Can't Do
  1 project | dev.to | 1 Apr 2026

  So I spent the last two weeks building Safari MCP -- a native Safari automation server with 80 tools, running entirely through AppleScript and JavaScript injection. No Chrome. No Puppeteer. No headless browser.

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