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tab-mcp

tab-mcp lets an AI app such as Claude, ChatGPT or Claude Code use a web page that is open in your browser tab: the page offers some of its functions as tools, and the relay at tab-mcp.ractive.ch passes the AI app's calls to the page while the tab is open. Nothing to install. Nothing goes through the relay until you click Connect on a page and pair your AI app with the code the page shows.

Examples

To offer tools on your own site, see the quick start for page authors. This relay accepts pages from ractive.ch only; run your own for other sites.

Privacy

What the relay at tab-mcp.ractive.ch passes on and what it stores.

What passes through

While a page is connected, every request the AI app sends to the page and every answer the page gives travel through the relay: the tool name, its arguments and its result. For saturnus that is, for example, the keys to press and what the calculator shows. The connection is encrypted between your browser and the relay and between the AI app and the relay, but the relay itself reads this traffic in clear text, because it has to pass it on.

The relay passes this content on and forgets it. It does not store it and does not write it to its logs.

What is stored

When you pair an AI app, the relay stores a grant:

No names, no email addresses, no IP addresses and no tool contents are stored. A grant ends when you disconnect the app on the page, and 90 days after pairing at the latest. Access tokens last one hour.

Logs

The relay logs events such as "a page connected" or "a request took too long", with shortened ids. Logs never contain requests, answers, tokens or codes. An IP address appears only when a rate limit is hit, and then shortened (the last part removed). Your IP address is used, in memory only, to limit how many sessions one address can open.

Where it runs

The relay runs on bunny.net (BunnyWay d.o.o., Slovenia) in Germany, and its traffic passes through bunny.net's CDN. Like any hosting provider, bunny.net processes connection data such as IP addresses to deliver the traffic. Its access logs for the relay keep IP addresses only with the last part removed. See bunny.net's privacy policy.

Questions

Open an issue at github.com/ractive/tab-mcp.