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Launch sessions in BrowserStack Live with the MCP server
Use natural language prompts in your AI assistant to instantly launch BrowserStack Live sessions for interactive manual testing on real devices.
The BrowserStack MCP server lets you launch BrowserStack Live sessions directly from your AI coding assistant (like GitHub Copilot, Claude, or Cursor), streamlining your manual testing workflow.
Instead of navigating a dashboard to pick a device and browser, you can use simple, natural language prompts to instantly start an interactive test session on any of our real devices. This approach keeps you in your development environment, making cross-browser testing faster and more intuitive.
To use Live tools on the BrowserStack MCP server, you need a BrowserStack Live license. Contact BrowserStack support to enable a license for your account.
The MCP server logs all tool invocations. For example, the prompt Open www.google.com on the latest version of Microsoft Edge on Windows 11 maps to the runBrowserLiveSession tool, and its execution can be confirmed by observing the corresponding log entry from the server.
Live tool reference
Use the runBrowserLiveSession tool to start an interactive BrowserStack Live session for testing websites on real desktop or mobile browsers.
| Example Prompt | Description | Invoked Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Open www.google.com on the latest version of Microsoft Edge on Windows 11 | Starts an interactive BrowserStack Live session for testing websites on real desktop or mobile browsers. | runBrowserLiveSession |
More example prompts
| Goal | Example Prompt |
|---|---|
| Test a locally hosted website | Start https://localhost:5343 on Galaxy S24 on Android 12 |
| Test on a specific browser and OS | Start a session with browserstack.com on Chrome on macOS Sonoma |
| Test on a mobile device (iOS) | Launch amazon.com on an iPhone 15 Pro Max using Safari |
| Test on a mobile device (Android) | Test wikipedia.org on Chrome on a Samsung Galaxy S24 |
| Use a simpler prompt | Open browserstack.com on Firefox |
For a complete list of supported browsers & mobile devices, refer to the BrowserStack Live supported devices & browsers page.
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