# Kernel — AI Connector Kernel publishes 16 MCP tools to Claude. Marketplace availability, tool surface, verification tier, and what Node8 measured against the live endpoint. Source: https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/kernel/ --- [AI Connectors](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/) · [Productivity](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/) # Kernel Cloud browser sessions for web automation and agent workflows Listed in Claude · 16 published tools · Community-listed [Claude connector docs](https://www.kernel.sh/docs/reference/mcp-server) [kernel.sh](https://www.kernel.sh/) Overview ## What Kernel does Kernel runs browsers inside isolated cloud VMs and hands control of them to an assistant. Sessions can be driven with mouse and keyboard actions or with Playwright code, each in a sandboxed browser VM with a live view attached. The listing describes persisting logins through profiles, routing traffic through datacenter, residential or mobile proxy pools, and keeping pre-warmed browser pools so a session is available without a cold start. Kernel automation apps can be deployed and invoked, API keys and credentials managed, and every session recorded to video for replay afterwards. Sixteen tools are published at community tier. A Kernel account is required, and the endpoint asks for it first. ### Who it is for Engineers building browser automation or agents that operate real web sessions. ### Tool surface Sixteen tools covering session lifecycle, proxying, app deployment and credential handling, all of it behind an authentication check that returns 401. Availability ## Where Kernel is listed Kernel is listed in the Claude connectors directory only. Kernel has no app under the same domain in the ChatGPT directory; 392 of the 3,150 products here are on both marketplaces, and this is not one of them. The MCP server behind a Claude connector is usually the same server a ChatGPT app would need, so the absence is a distribution decision rather than a technical one. Claude listing ## In the Claude connectors directory Kernel publishes 16 tools to Claude, deeper than 61.6% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors. The median Claude-listed connector filed under Productivity publishes 12, so this one runs 4 tools above its bucket's median and ranks 186th of 462 by tool count. It falls in the 11-20 tools band, which holds 22.5% of the Claude directory. Kernel publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally. Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there. Publisher Kernel Verification Community-listed (61.5% of the Claude directory) Filed under Productivity Endpoint `https://mcp.onkernel.com/mcp` Documentation [Publisher setup docs](https://www.kernel.sh/docs/reference/mcp-server) Published tools 16 · 11-20 tools band Depth rank in Productivity 186 of 462 Snapshot August 2026 Kernel is community-listed in the Claude directory, the tier 770 of 1,253 connectors sit in (61.5%). It is the default for a self-published server, and says nothing either way about quality. In the publisher's words ## How Kernel describes it > Kernel gives Claude on-demand cloud browsers for web automation and agent workflows. Launch browser sessions and drive them with mouse and keyboard actions or Playwright code in a fully sandboxed browser VM. Persist logins with profiles, route traffic through datacenter, residential, or mobile proxies, and pre-warm browser pools for fast acquisition. Deploy and invoke Kernel automation apps, manage API keys and credentials, and capture automatic video replays of every session. Each browser runs in an isolated VM with a live view. Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it. Nearby ## Other Productivity connectors ### [Druva MCP](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/druva-mcp/) Backup administration and audit logs from a Druva Cloud account Claude ### [Keenable Web Search](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/keenable-web-search/) Keyless live web search and markdown page fetch Claude ### [AgentContext](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/agentcontext/) Business context from a data stack: schemas, concepts and metadata Claude ### [Agentic Search by Liner](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/agentic-search-by-liner/) Cited web and academic search with source links ChatGPT ### [Autocalls AI](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/autocalls-ai/) Build and operate AI phone agents from chat ChatGPT ### [StubHub](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/stubhub/) Event browsing and ticket search on StubHub Claude · ChatGPT [All 760 Productivity connectors](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/) This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Kernel's public marketplace listing as it stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Kernel, and inclusion here is not an endorsement. ## Want your company reachable inside ChatGPT and Claude? Node8 builds MCP servers end to end: deciding which tools are worth exposing, the authentication and permission model, the review submissions, and the onboarding that gets them used. One server serves ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot. [See how it works](https://node8.ai/mcp) Book a strategy session