Safari 27 Ships a Built-In Local MCP Server, Making Apple the First Browser Vendor to Hand Coding Agents the Browser Officially

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The WebKit blog's Safari 27 developer post, covered September 17, details a local MCP server that gives Claude Code, Codex or any MCP client access to the DOM, network requests, screenshots and console output, running entirely on the developer's machine behind a Safari > Settings > Developer toggle for remote automation and external agents. The release also includes styleable select, the model element on iOS, iPadOS and macOS, and 844 fixes. Shipping the hook in the browser itself undercuts the wrapper layer of Playwright-MCP-style tooling and the paid browser-automation services built on top of it.