playwright-mcp

I'd recommend chrome(ium) headless https://developer.chrome.com/docs/chromium/headless . It works with various drivers like puppeteer, selenium and playwright for some added convenience. At https://checklyhq.com we and our customers use it heavily and reliably through playwright for various monitoring, testing and automation use cases. As you want to use it from an Agent you also should take a look at https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp and https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp

I got tired of playwright-mcp eating through Claude's 200K token limit, so I built this using the new Claude Skills system. Built it with Claude Code itself. Instead of sending accessibility tree snapshots on every action, Claude just writes Playwright code and runs it. You get back screenshots and console output. That's it. 314 lines of instructions vs a persistent MCP server. Full API docs only load if Claude needs them. Same browser automation, way less overhead. Works as a Claude Code plugin or manual install. Token limit issue: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp/issues/889 Claude Skills docs: https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills

With web apps playwright-mcp[0] is essential IMO. It lets the AI Agent check its own work before claiming it's done. With that it can see any errors in the console, click through the UI and take screenshots to analyse how it looks giving it an independent feedback loop. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp

I have trouble understanding the level of criticism about MCPs. As I understand it, it's just a tool that allows an LLM to communicate with other tools. People often talk about web APIs, but we should also consider the integration of local tools. For me, the integration is mind-blowing. When I tried the Playwright MCP integration [0][1] a few months ago, I really felt that after giving computers the ability to speak or communicate, we had now given them arms. I still get goosebumps thinking about it. [0]https://youtu.be/3NWy_sxD3Vc [1]https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp [EDIT]

Cline with Gemini 2.5 (https://cline.bot/) Framelink MCP (https://github.com/GLips/Figma-Context-MCP) Playwright MCP (https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp) Pull down designs via Framelink, optionally enrich with PNG exports of nodes added as image uploads to the prompt, write out the components, test/verify via Playwright MCP. Gemini has a 1M context size now, so this applies to large mature codebases as well as greenfield. The key thing here is the coding agent being really clever about maintaining its' context; you don't need to fit an entire codebase into a single prompt in the same way that you don't need to fit the entire codebase into your head to make a change, you just need enough context on the structure and form to maintain the correct patterns.

Or just use Playwright MCP: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp

Hey Pavel, this is Namu, the creator of Browser MCP. You’re right, this is an adaptation of Playwright MCP to automate the user’s local browser as mentioned in the GitHub README and here: - https://github.com/BrowserMCP/mcp/blob/3e6824de6f36eba7d2d3b... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613905 Thanks for all your work to Playwright and Playwright MCP. I’m a big fan! (For those not familiar, Pavel is the largest contributor to both Playwright and Playwright MCP: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/graphs/contributors, https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp/graphs/contribut...)

I mean no disrespect, but this looks like an outdated clone of https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp/blob/main/src/to... https://github.com/BrowserMCP/mcp/blob/main/src/tools/tool.t...

author replied on Twitter: > that's a great use case! the aria snapshot that browser mcp generates is enough to write tests for playwright using its role-based locators, but i may add a get_page_html tool in the same way that they're considering: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp/issues/103 https://x.com/roadtoramen/status/1909356255866733044