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Expand Up @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ The real power of connected apps is combining them in a single request. The assi

## Add a Custom MCP Server

You can connect any MCP-compatible server that exposes an SSE endpoint.
You can connect remote MCP servers over Streamable HTTP or SSE. BrowserOS detects the transport from the server URL.

1. Go to **Settings > Connected Apps**
2. Click **Add custom app**
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MCP has a growing ecosystem of servers. Browse [MCP servers on GitHub](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers) to find integrations for databases, APIs, and more.
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### Example: Parallel Search

[Parallel Search MCP](https://docs.parallel.ai/integrations/mcp/search-mcp) provides public web search and page extraction without a Parallel account or API key. Free access is rate limited.

1. Open **Connect Apps** from the sidebar and click **Add custom app**.
2. Enter **Parallel Search** as the **Server Name**.
3. Enter `https://search.parallel.ai/mcp` as the **MCP Server URL**.
4. Click **Add Server**. No sign-in, API key, or local proxy is needed.

Try asking: "Use Parallel Search to find the BrowserOS documentation and fetch the page about connecting apps."

The connection exposes `web_search` and `web_fetch`. Once added, the assistant can call these tools during its work, sending queries, requested URLs, and any supplied objective or context to Parallel. Use public URLs for page extraction; this service does not use your signed-in browser session.

To stop using it, remove **Parallel Search** from **Connect Apps** and start a new conversation.

### Connect to OAuth-Protected Remote Servers

Some remote MCP servers (like Atlassian Jira, GitHub, etc.) require OAuth authentication. Use [mcp-remote](https://www.npmjs.com/package/mcp-remote) and [supergateway](https://github.com/supercorp-ai/supergateway) to handle the OAuth flow locally:
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