How to run chrome mcp under WSL ?

[it-sha]

We have a workaround solution for Claude Code ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp#131 (comment)

But do we have some working solution with Codex CLI ?

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Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

• Chrome-Devtools-MCP Error on Linux #5166
• MCP clients fail to start (sentry, context7, playwright, chrome-devtools) — request timed out #4400

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[dbalabka]

So, I ended up with a shell script that checks and applies all required Windows settings and then starts already installed Windows Chrome with the proper configuration:
https://github.com/dbalabka/chrome-wsl/

You can simply start Chrome (the initial run may require applying some Windows tweaks):

npx @dbalabka/chrome-wsl

To stop Chrome:

npx @dbalabka/chrome-wsl --stop

To completely clean up the applied Windows settings:

npx @dbalabka/chrome-wsl --uninstall

If you want to run the agent inside a Docker container, you can ask the script to apply the required adjustments inside the container as well:

npx @dbalabka/chrome-wsl --container=<name>

To setup to DevTools MCP you need the following settings:

[mcp_servers.chome-devtools]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "chrome-devtools-mcp@latest", "--browser-url=http://127.0.0.1:9222"]
startup_timeout_sec = 20.0