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safari-mcp reviews and mentions

• I filed it as a flaky test. It was a crash that try/catch can't reach.
  5 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2026

  Safari MCP, the open-source server I maintain, runs one process that owns a local bridge port. Any other instance becomes a secondary: it proxies through that primary, and if the primary goes away, it takes the port over. One test covers exactly that handoff. Start a primary, start a secondary, stop the primary, wait for the secondary to say it's listening.

• iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 released
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2026

  Unfortunately, not well suited for stealth use cases for personal automation. Here's a comparison to an mcp tool that allows driving your live safari via osascript:

  [1]: https://github.com/achiya-automation/safari-mcp#vs-apples-of...

• The commit that fixed my only security advisory failed its security audit. The audit never ran.
  1 project | dev.to | 5 Sep 2026

  On 4 September I cut two releases of safari-mcp ten minutes apart. The second one exists because of a mistake in the first, and its CI run went red for a reason that had nothing to do with either.

• I said my tool supported multiple instances. A stranger running 15 of them filed three bugs. All three were right.
  1 project | dev.to | 13 Aug 2026

  I maintain safari-mcp, an MCP server that lets AI agents drive a real Safari session on macOS. Over a few releases this summer I shipped per-session tab isolation — the feature that lets several agents share one browser without stealing each other's tabs. I wrote about it here. Twice. I was reasonably proud of it.

• An invisible character broke a security patch. Then it broke my review. Then it broke my review of the fix.
  1 project | dev.to | 9 Aug 2026

  My open-source project, safari-mcp, got a security-hardening pull request from an automated scanner. The idea behind the patch was right. The patch itself un-parsed the codebase. Then the same defect infected my review of the patch, my review of the fix, and eventually the private note I wrote to remind myself to stop letting this happen.

• I gave a user the right answer with the wrong mechanism. They caught it within a day.
  2 projects | dev.to | 4 Aug 2026

  Quick context: I maintain safari-mcp, an MCP server that gives AI agents a real Safari session on macOS. The whole thread (#76) was about running multiple agents against one Safari without them stealing each other's tabs.

• A user spent four days designing a feature for my project. The right answer was zero lines of code.
  1 project | dev.to | 31 Jul 2026

  My project is safari-mcp, an MCP server that lets AI coding agents drive the real Safari on macOS — your session, your logins, your tabs. Which is exactly what makes concurrency dangerous: if two agents share one browser, "the active tab" is a loaded gun.

• I built a guard that refused to read the user's tab. Then my own cleanup code closed it.
  1 project | dev.to | 26 Jul 2026

  Fixed in v2.15.8. The repo is safari-mcp — the full analysis is in issue #68.

• I filed a critical bug against my own tool. Then I read the code — and my own root cause was wrong.
  1 project | dev.to | 17 Jul 2026

  The tool is safari-mcp, an MCP server that lets an AI agent drive the Safari you're already logged into. That premise is the whole value proposition, and it's also the whole danger: the user is using this browser at the same time as the agent. The single promise the project makes is "the agent never touches a tab it didn't open."

• The Safari MCP Server Could Change How Developers Debug Websites
  2 projects | dev.to | 4 Jul 2026

  Further reading: the Model Context Protocol specification, the Safari MCP server announcement on WebKit.org, and the community safari-mcp project on GitHub.

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