Comment by Nathanba

what do you mean by "visual parsing like Playwright"? I'm pretty sure Playwright queries the DOM via js, there isn't inherently any visual parsing. Do you just mean that mcp-b has dedicated js APIs for each website? Your example is also pretty confusing, it looks like the website itself offers an "Increment by x" "tool" and then your first command to the website is to "subtract two from the count". So the AI model has to still understand the mcp tools offered by the website quite loosely and just calls them as needed? I suppose this is basically like using playwright except it doesn't have to parse the DOM (although it probably still does, I mean how else will it know that the "Increment by X" tool offered is in any way connected to the "count" you mention in your vague prompt. And then the additional benefit is that it can call a js function instead of having to generate the DOM/js playwright calls to do it.

I mean all this MCP stuff certainly seems useful even though this example isn't so good, the bigger uses will be when larger APIs and interactions are offered by the website like "Make a purchase" or "sort a table" and the AI would have to implement very complex set of DOM operations and XHR requests to make that happen and instead of flailing to do that, it can call an MCP tool which is just a js function.