playwright-skill

A browser-automation workflow built with Playwright, a tool for controlling web browsers through code. It can test pages, interact with forms, capture screenshots, check mobile layouts, test sign-in flows, and inspect links.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for testing websites, automating browser tasks, checking responsive design, validating user journeys, testing login flows, and finding broken links.
Why use it?
It removes the need to repeat browser checks manually and helps developers verify how a website behaves and looks.

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/commandcodeai/agent-skills/playwright-skill
Any agent
npx skills add CommandCodeAI/agent-skills --skill playwright-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CommandCodeAI/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,292 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 $0.00078 $0.03292
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01646
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00658
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00329

Measured 2d ago against content hash f38b55f1a3f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

playwright-skill 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (lib/helpers.js, run.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/playwright-skill/SKILL.md · 454 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 454 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IMPORTANT - Path Resolution: This skill can be installed in different locations (plugin system, manual installation, global, or project-specific). Before executing any commands, determine the skill directory based on where you loaded this SKILL.md file, and use that path in all commands below. Replace $SKILL_DIR with the actual discovered path.

Common installation paths:

  • Plugin system: ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/playwright-skill/skills/playwright-skill
  • Manual global: ~/.claude/skills/playwright-skill
  • Project-specific: <project>/.claude/skills/playwright-skill

Playwright Browser Automation

General-purpose browser automation skill. I'll write custom Playwright code for any automation task you request and execute it via the universal executor.

CRITICAL WORKFLOW - Follow these steps in order:

  1. Auto-detect dev servers - For localhost testing, ALWAYS run server detection FIRST:

    cd $SKILL_DIR && node -e "require('./lib/helpers').detectDevServers().then(servers => console.log(JSON.stringify(servers)))"
    
    • If 1 server found: Use it automatically, inform user
    • If multiple servers found: Ask user which one to test
    • If no servers found: Ask for URL or offer to help start dev server
  2. Write scripts to /tmp - NEVER write test files to skill directory; always use /tmp/playwright-test-*.js

  3. Use visible browser by default - Always use headless: false unless user specifically requests headless mode

  4. Parameterize URLs - Always make URLs configurable via environment variable or constant at top of script

How It Works

  1. You describe what you want to test/automate
  2. I auto-detect running dev servers (or ask for URL if testing external site)
  3. I write custom Playwright code in /tmp/playwright-test-*.js (won't clutter your project)
  4. I execute it via: cd $SKILL_DIR && node run.js /tmp/playwright-test-*.js
  5. Results displayed in real-time, browser window visible for debugging
  6. Test files auto-cleaned from /tmp by your OS

Read the full file on GitHub · 454 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 454 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A f38b55f1a3f1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

playwright-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository CommandCodeAI/agent-skills (120 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 3,292 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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