playwright

A browser-automation guide for opening websites and reading the page content that appears after JavaScript runs. Playwright is a tool for controlling a web browser through code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to open a URL, save a browser recording, download the fully rendered HTML, or check what a page displays.
Why use it?
It helps inspect modern websites whose useful content is not present in the initial HTML source.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/codelytv/agentic_programming-course/playwright
Any agent
npx skills add CodelyTV/agentic_programming-course --skill playwright
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodelyTV/agentic_programming-course

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 204 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 $0.00037 $0.00204
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00102
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00020

Measured yesterday against content hash 6818f2037d17, 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.

05-mcps/3-mcp_vs_cli/4-multiple_cli/.agents/skills/playwright/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Download the rendered HTML instead of PDF or screenshots. Use the Playwright CLI:

npx playwright open --save-har=/tmp/page.har --save-har-glob="**" <url> --headless

Or more directly, dump the fully rendered DOM:

node -e "const{chromium}=require('playwright');(async()=>{const b=await chromium.launch();const p=await b.newPage();await p.goto(process.argv[1],{waitUntil:'networkidle'});console.log(await p.content());await b.close()})();" <url> > /tmp/page.html

Then read /tmp/page.html to analyze the page content.

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 · 20 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 6818f2037d17

Subscribe to this mod's changes

playwright is a skill published in the GitHub repository CodelyTV/agentic_programming-course (38 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 204 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.