playwright-network-control-and-api-synchronization

playwright-network-control-and-api-synchronization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from andrewsrigom/agent-skills. It costs 57 tokens per session (755 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for making Playwright browser tests coordinate reliably with network requests and backend behavior. Playwright is a tool for testing websites in a real browser; this covers waiting, request interception, API calls, and controlled mocking.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when synchronizing tests with API responses, intercepting or mocking requests, using Playwright API request contexts, or deciding which dependencies to test for real.
Why use it?
It reduces failures caused by tests running before data arrives and helps avoid mocks that hide the backend behavior the test should check.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when synchronizing tests with API responses, intercepting or mocking requests, using Playwright API request contexts, or deciding which dependencies to test for real.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/andrewsrigom/agent-skills/playwright-network-control-and-api-synchronization
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add andrewsrigom/agent-skills --skill playwright-network-control-and-api-synchronization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andrewsrigom/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 755 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00057 $0.00755
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00378
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00076

Measured 9d ago against content hash 30f6d6e14d3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

playwright-network-control-and-api-synchronization 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 9d ago.

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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.

playwright/playwright-network-control-and-api-synchronization/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

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Playwright Network Control And API Synchronization

Use this skill when the test problem is really about backend timing, request control, or mocking boundaries.

Scope

  • waiting on meaningful network activity
  • route interception and mocking
  • API request contexts
  • backend synchronization
  • deciding what should be mocked vs exercised end to end

Routing cues

  • page.route, request interception, API mocking, waitForResponse, APIRequestContext, backend synchronization, flaky loading due to network timing, or when to mock -> use this skill
  • locator or assertion fragility -> use playwright-locators-assertions-and-user-visible-contracts
  • auth state and role reuse -> use playwright-auth-projects-and-isolation
  • traces, flaky failure analysis, or codegen cleanup -> use playwright-debugging-traces-and-flake-reduction

Default path

  1. Prefer real backend flows for the core happy path when they are stable and meaningful to the product.
  2. Synchronize on visible outcomes first, and on targeted network events second when the UI alone is not enough.
  3. Mock only the dependencies that make the test too slow, too flaky, or too hard to control.
  4. Keep mocks narrow and scenario-specific.
  5. Use API request contexts for setup and teardown when that keeps UI tests focused on the right surface.

When to deviate

  • Mock more aggressively only when third-party dependencies or rare failure branches are the real subject.
  • Wait on network events directly only when the visible UI signal is too indirect or ambiguous.
  • Use fully mocked flows for deterministic edge-case coverage that would be impractical end to end.

Guardrails

  • do not over-mock the product's own critical behavior
  • network waits should correspond to a meaningful contract
  • setup via API is fine when it removes irrelevant UI churn
  • mocks should remain readable and local to the scenario they support

Avoid

  • mocking the very backend contract the test is supposed to validate
  • waiting on every request instead of the one that matters
  • leaving broad route interception in place across unrelated tests
  • using network control as a substitute for fixing broken locator or assertion strategy

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 88 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 30f6d6e14d3b

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playwright-network-control-and-api-synchronization is a skill published in the GitHub repository andrewsrigom/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 755 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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