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Stealth mode to circumvent bot detection

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Description

Being Blocked by bot detection.

Till date I was using this MCP server programatically with open ai agents SDK to create an AI agent.

I avoided bot detection while running in headless with the following config -

"mcpServers": {
"chrome-devtools": {
"command": "npx -y chrome-devtools-mcp@latest",
"env": {},
"args": [
"--headless=true",
"--isolated=true",
"--viewport=1280x900",
"--chromeArg=--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled",
"--chromeArg=--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
]
}

But now those websites have updated their bot measures and even with "--headless=false" this config triggers a bot response.

Describe the solution you'd like

ZFC Digital's puppeteer-real-browser package is stealthy and avoids bot triggers.

So is there any way to get the mcp server to use/rely on that package to avoid bot detection? Or is there any other way to configure the chromedevtools mcp server to avoid bot measures?

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Describe alternatives you've considered

There is another mcp literally called the puppeteer-real-browser-mcp-server which does not trigger bot measures but is not as reliable as the ChromeDevTools mcp.

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Research direction

Review the MCP server configuration and the listed Chrome launch arguments, then compare the requested integration with ZFC Digital's puppeteer-real-browser package and the puppeteer-real-browser-mcp-server alternative. Determine whether a supported configuration or integration path is defined; done should include a clearly documented, maintainable approach rather than an ad hoc stealth workaround.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
devtools, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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