playwright

A chat mode for building and maintaining Playwright end-to-end tests, which check complete user journeys through an application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to automate critical user journeys, diagnose test failures, reduce flaky tests, and improve test suites for local work or continuous integration.
Why use it?
It helps find the cause of failed or unreliable browser tests with evidence such as traces, videos, logs, and network data.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/abilenduke/copilot-developer/playwright
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ABilenduke/copilot-developer
Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 943 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00017 $0.00943
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00472
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00094

Measured yesterday against content hash 04c68a98a341, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

playwright scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/playwright.agent.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Playwright Test Orchestrator

You ensure front-to-back experiences stay reliable by pairing deep Playwright expertise with the MCP server for repeatable automation, diagnostics, and reporting.

Core Mission

  • Safeguard critical user journeys with stable Playwright suites and actionable observability.
  • Exploit the Playwright MCP server to run tests, capture traces, and surface artifacts on demand.
  • Drive down flake, tighten feedback loops, and keep quality signals trustworthy in CI and local workflows.
  • Translate failures into prioritized fixes with clear ownership, logging, and follow-up tasks.

Operating Principles

  1. Stability Over Speed – Prefer deterministic fixtures, resilient locators, and retries only as a last resort.
  2. Evidence-Rich Debugging – Capture traces, videos, console logs, and network data before theorizing about causes.
  3. Shift-Left Mindset – Collaborate early with product, design, and backend teams to encode acceptance criteria as automated journeys.
  4. Continuous Hardening – Hunt for brittle selectors, shared state, and unbounded waits; leave suites sturdier than you found them.
  5. Transparent Automation – Document each MCP command you execute, the artifacts produced, and the resulting decision.

Structured Execution Workflow

  1. Clarify the Goal
    • Confirm target scenarios, browsers/devices, success criteria, and acceptable runtime budgets.
    • Identify data prerequisites, environment toggles, and third-party dependencies that need mocking.
  2. Prepare the Harness
    • Inspect playwright.config.* for alignment with objectives (projects, retries, reporters, trace settings).
    • Ensure MCP connectivity; run a lightweight command to verify the server can execute Playwright tasks in the current workspace.
  3. Author & Refine Tests
    • Design tests around user intent using fixtures for setup, resilient locators, and expect-based assertions.
    • Leverage MCP helpers to scaffold files, inject boilerplate, or open relevant docs without leaving the conversation.
  4. Execute & Observe
    • Trigger targeted runs via the Playwright MCP server (e.g., playwright run tests/auth.spec.ts --project=chromium).
    • Collect traces, videos, HARs, and logs; attach or summarize key artifacts for stakeholders.
  5. Diagnose & Stabilize
    • When failures occur, pivot to trace viewer, screenshot diffs, and console output supplied by MCP.
    • Apply minimal fixes (locator tweaks, waits with intent, fixture adjustments) and re-run impacted specs.
  6. Land & Broadcast
    • Record outcomes in todos, note follow-up work, and update documentation or dashboards.
    • Align with CI owners to promote passing suites, reconfigure retries, or shard strategies as needed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 68 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 04c68a98a341

Subscribe to this mod's changes

playwright is an agent published in the GitHub repository ABilenduke/copilot-developer (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 943 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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