ZXzxspectrumk48·Mar 15, 2026
I found this one working amazingly well (same idea - connect to existing session): https://github.com/remorses/playwriter
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remorses / playwriter
playwriter
Chrome extension & CLI to let agents control your browser. Runs Playwright snippets in a stateful sandbox. Available as CLI or MCP
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Chrome extension & CLI to let agents control your browser. Runs Playwright snippets in a stateful sandbox. Available as CLI or MCP
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6 sourcesMainly using playwriter.dev to help debug CSS issues on the page. It's an extension you can enable in Chrome and let agents control the browser via CDP
https://github.com/remorses/playwriter
In Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?I really like this idea!
I’d like to see this other browser plugin’s API be exposed via your same CLI, so I don’t have to only control a separate browser instance.
https://github.com/remorses/playwriter
(I haven’t investigated enough to know how feasible it is, but as I was reading about your tool, I immediately wanted to control existing tabs from my main browser, rather than “just” a debug-driven separate browser instance.)
In Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCPPlaywriter: Playwright MCP with 80% less context window
2 points · Open discussionPlaywriter: Browser extension MCP uses 90% fewer tokens than Playwright
3 points · Open discussionShow HN: Playwriter MCP – Automate the Browser Using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
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