chrome-devtools-mcp: v1.7.0

1.7.0 (2026-08-10)

🎉 Features

• add a utility function to check for localhost. (#2454) (c5ebf9e)
• Add get_heapsnapshot_object_details MCP tool (#2374) (8432cb9)
• Emit native contexts in snapshot summary (#2375) (f78a911)
• Filter heap snapshot objects by native context (#2377) (76fd242)
• telemetry: log devtools data. (#2460) (df2c753)
• telemetry: log is_devtools_open with each tool call. (#2445) (6f60eab)
• telemetry: report whether tool call is made on localhost. (#2455) (6398b7e)
• update lighthouse to 13.4.1 (#2398) (745ffe7)

🛠️ Fixes

• bound per-navigation network request retention (#2435) (b08c73c)
• cli: validate session ids (#2475) (5ca9121)
• cli: warn about version mismatch between cli and daemon (#2461) (3afc44d)
• daemon: preserve hyphenated browser flags in arg serialization and lazy daemon startup (#2405) (d79f3ba)
• dispose heap snapshot workers on context teardown (#2428) (f245c76)
• do not throw synchronously when a CDP session is gone (#2466) (ba4fe3e)
• don't throw if Dialog was handled (#2437) (574c320)
• downscale viewport screenshots when no viewport is emulated (#2380) (39c4140)
• improve daemon lifecycle (#2360) (3ee6a27)
• improve file writing (#2447) (1da4bb0)
• include the tab id in get_tab_id's text response (#2381) (dcbaf49)
• memory: dispose the heap-snapshot worker when loading fails (#2449) (744738d)
• performance: reset trace-running flag when start_trace setup fails (#2420) (40240c0)
• regression after the #2443 (#2462) (4c80ce4)
• rename maxRetainedSize column (#2402) (75c7048)
• screenshot: dispose element handle after take_screenshot (#2422) (fffb40e)
• toggle lazy loading for source maps. (#2486) (8028bfe)
• wait: avoid 180s mutex stall when a dialog opens during an action (#2427) (b4e8f74)

📄 Documentation

• Add devin cli install instruction to README (#2361) (45262c0)
• correct the user data directory documentation (#2473) (5ddbffd)
• skills: update memory leak debugging skill to use native MCP tools (#2436) (99bd90a)
• Update Chrome requirement for categoryExperimentalWebmcp (#2163) (354458e)
• update security.md (#2362) (5012b07)

🏗️ Refactor

• clean up McpResponse.handle (#2392) (348975d)
• introduce Explicit resouce managent (using) (#2443) (5b25370)
• move tool groups (#2365) (2d944f9)
• re-use Puppteer Mutex (#2444) (775ea2d)
• rename methods for clarity (#2442) (dc23bcd)
• use a destructor to shorten the calls (#2376) (77e1d3f)