FEATURE REQUEST: Nova-Act MCP integration

[madtank]

I've been playing around with Nova-Act and MCP and think they'd work great together.
Nova-Act has some cool browser automation capabilities that would be awesome through MCP. I've done some testing on my end and it works pretty well.
Would be cool if this became an official thing. Happy to share more if interested.

[awerchniak]

Love the idea! Leaving the feature request open so others can +1 if they'd like it as well. Thanks for the suggestion! :)

[ebaizel]

Hey @madtank thanks for submitting the feature request! Can you share more about how you could see yourself using this MCP integration? If you have any specific applications or use cases in mind, those would be great.

[madtank]

Hey @madtank thanks for submitting the feature request! Can you share more about how you could see yourself using this MCP integration? If you have any specific applications or use cases in mind, those would be great.

I've been building a nova-act mcp. I see bunch of use cases with browser automation. The reason I suggest mcp, is because it's basically usb-c for agents. People will be able to plug in to any solution that supports mcp. In my repo I showcase it with the Claude desktop app. https://github.com/madtank/nova-act-mcp. I'm doing this for fun, but could benefit from official support.

[madtank]

Google adopted MCP along with others including OpenAI. Built into VSCode and cursor. Seems there won't be a standard war. That's better for the consumer and the owners of the standard that does not win.

[agupta01]

Great to see there's some support for this! I also tried to build a MCP around Nova Act (https://github.com/agupta01/nova-act-mcp) but I abandoned it because I couldn't get Nova Act to work faster than approx. 20 seconds per action :( @madtank have you had any luck with making it faster? It was so painfully, unusably slow when I tried

[ebaizel]

hey @agupta01, have you tried breaking down your prompt into more discrete steps? that can help with reducing latency. Higher level reasoning often takes longer to execute, so taking a step-wise approach may help.

[madtank]

Great to see there's some support for this! I also tried to build a MCP around Nova Act (https://github.com/agupta01/nova-act-mcp) but I abandoned it because I couldn't get Nova Act to work faster than approx. 20 seconds per action :( @madtank have you had any luck with making it faster? It was so painfully, unusably slow when I tried

Overall, I agree it's pretty slow, but figuring it would improve overtime and the best way to interact with it would be an MCP.

[madtank]

@ebaizel good news, I made a ton of improvements to the mcp server and published to pypi. Now it can be added to the config using uvx. https://github.com/madtank/nova-act-mcp.