playwright

Testing rules for Playwright, a tool that automates and checks web pages in a browser. They cover how to find elements and how to rely on Playwright's automatic waiting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when writing or reviewing end-to-end browser tests, especially selectors for buttons, headings, links, forms, and complex page elements.
Why use it?
They make browser tests easier to read and less likely to fail because they interact with elements before those elements are ready.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/m3au/playwright-bdd-cursor-template/playwright
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/m3au/playwright-bdd-cursor-template

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 645 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 $0.00000 $0.00645
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00322
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00064

Measured yesterday against content hash 9c39fcd707e5, 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.

.cursor/rules/playwright.mdc · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Playwright Standards

Locator Selection

Prefer Semantic Locators

  • A: prefer getByRole() for elements with semantic roles (button, heading, link, textbox, etc.)
  • A: prefer getByText() when selecting by visible text
  • A: prefer getByLabel() for form inputs
  • A: prefer getByPlaceholder() for inputs with placeholders
  • A: prefer getByTestId() for elements with data-testid attributes

When to Use locator()

  • Use locator() only when semantic locators are not available or insufficient
  • Use locator() for complex CSS selectors (e.g., [class*="plugmodal__category"])
  • Use locator() when you need to chain selectors (e.g., parentLocator.locator('.child'))
  • Use locator() for attribute-based selection when no semantic alternative exists (e.g., [itemprop="name"])

See tests/e2e/poms/components/cookie-banner.ts for semantic locator examples, tests/e2e/poms/components/cable-selector-popup.ts for locator() usage with complex selectors.

Auto-Waiting

Playwright Auto-Waiting

  • Playwright automatically waits for elements to be ready before interactions
  • click(), fill(), type() automatically wait for element to be attached, visible, stable, enabled, and receiving events
  • After clicking links, Playwright automatically waits for navigation to complete

When Explicit Waits Are Needed

  • N: use waitForLoadState('load') or waitForLoadState('domcontentloaded') after clicking links - Playwright auto-waits for navigation
  • N: use waitForTimeout() - use expect() assertions instead
  • Use waitFor() only for state transitions (e.g., waitFor({ state: 'attached' })) when not using expect()
  • Use expect().toBeVisible() for visibility checks - it has built-in waiting and better error reporting

See tests/e2e/poms/pages/product-detail-page.ts for correct navigation handling without redundant waits.

Assertions

  • Prefer expect() over waitFor() for better test reporting
  • Use expect().toBeVisible() instead of waitFor({ state: 'visible' })
  • Use expect().toBeHidden() instead of waitFor({ state: 'hidden' })
  • Use expect().toHaveText() for text verification
  • expect() assertions automatically wait and provide better error messages

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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 · 59 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9c39fcd707e5

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playwright is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository m3au/playwright-bdd-cursor-template (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 645 tokens. 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.