Chrome DevTools MCP 1.7: debug memory leaks without reading raw heap snapshots

Chrome DevTools MCP 1.7: debug memory leaks without reading raw heap snapshots

Quick answer

Chrome DevTools MCP 1.7 gives AI coding agents a stronger memory-debugging path: a new object-details tool, native-context summaries and filters, an updated first-party memory-leak skill, and fixes that dispose heap-snapshot workers more reliably.

Do not hand a multi-gigabyte .heapsnapshot file to an LLM or ask it to guess from one snapshot. Use a three-snapshot protocol:

baseline -> repeat one suspected action 10 times -> target