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Bun Uia MCP Server

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Bun Uia runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 73 installs a week from npm. Last commit 21 Aug 2026.

Playwright for the Windows desktop, from Bun — drive native GUIs via UI Automation + MCP.

Installs per day peak 68 · avg 17 · +43% w/w
a month agotoday
73
Installs / week
npm · bun-uia
19
Stars
0 open issues
21 Aug 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
TypeScript

What the code does

We read the source, 19 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

File ships in the package but is absent from the source [пакет] index.ts:1, [пакет] mcp.ts:1
этот файл ставится пользователю, но в репозитории его нет

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add bun-uia -- npx -y bun-uia
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bun-uia": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "bun-uia"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.bun-uia]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "bun-uia"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bun-uia": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "bun-uia"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bun-uia": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "bun-uia"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: BUN_UIA_PROFILE (Capability profile: 'readonly' (inspect/read only), 'safe' (read + input + window — default), or 'full' (also os + fs tools).), BUN_UIA_OS (Set to '1' to allow OS-level tools (launch_app, run_program, open_path) AND filesystem tools (read_file, write_file, list_dir) regardless of profile.), BUN_UIA_ALLOW (Comma-separated tool names or categories to additionally allow on top of the profile.), BUN_UIA_DENY (Comma-separated tool names or categories to deny, overriding the profile and BUN_UIA_ALLOW.), BUN_UIA_CURSOR (Set to 'never' to forbid the real-cursor fallback entirely (strictly cursor-free). By default clicks/drags are cursor-free but fall back to the real hardware cursor when no cursor-free path exists.), BUN_UIA_FS_ROOT (Sandbox root directory that read_file/write_file/list_dir are confined to when fs tools are enabled.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Bun Uia — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Bun Uia?
Bun Uia runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package bun-uia was installed 73 times last week.
How do I connect Bun Uia?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls bun-uia straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Bun Uia?
The npm package bun-uia was installed 73 times in the last week. Week over week that is +43%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Bun Uia open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 19 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.