What is install-playwright-mcp?

An installation guide for adding the Playwright MCP server to Claude Code. Playwright is a browser-automation tool that can navigate pages, fill forms, click controls, take screenshots, and provide structured page information.

It helps set up browser tasks for one project, all projects, or a team-shared configuration, with options such as headless mode and Firefox.

It explains how to give Claude Code access to a browser instead of limiting it to text and terminal work.

install-playwright-mcp — Skill for Claude Code by jpoutrin

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.

Any agent

npx skills add jpoutrin/product-forge --skill install-playwright-mcp

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpoutrin/product-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-code-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 614 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00017	$0.00614
Opus 5	$0.00009	$0.00307
Sonnet 5	$0.00003	$0.00123
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00061

Measured 8d ago against content hash 441056bba751, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

install-playwright-mcp 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 8d ago.

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.

plugins/claude-code-dev/skills/install-playwright-mcp/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Install Playwright MCP Server

Install the Playwright MCP server to enable browser automation capabilities.

What This Does

The Playwright MCP server provides:

Browser automation - Navigate, click, fill forms, take screenshots
Accessibility snapshots - LLM-friendly structured data, no vision models needed
Fast and lightweight - Uses Playwright's accessibility tree

Installation Command

Run this command to install:

claude mcp add playwright -- npx @playwright/mcp@latest

Scope Options

--scope local (default): Available only in current project
--scope project: Shared with team via .mcp.json
--scope user: Available across all your projects

# Install for user (all projects)
claude mcp add playwright --scope user -- npx @playwright/mcp@latest

# Install for project (team shared)
claude mcp add playwright --scope project -- npx @playwright/mcp@latest

Headless Mode

For headless operation (no visible browser):

claude mcp add playwright -- npx @playwright/mcp@latest --headless

Common Configurations

With specific browser

claude mcp add playwright -- npx @playwright/mcp@latest --browser firefox

With custom viewport

claude mcp add playwright -- npx @playwright/mcp@latest --viewport-size 1920x1080

With isolated sessions (no persistence)

claude mcp add playwright -- npx @playwright/mcp@latest --isolated

Verify Installation

After installation:

Restart Claude Code
Run /mcp to see the playwright server
Test with: "Navigate to google.com and take a snapshot"

Available Tools After Installation

browser_navigate - Go to URL
browser_click - Click elements
browser_type - Type text
browser_snapshot - Get page accessibility tree
browser_take_screenshot - Capture screenshot
browser_fill_form - Fill multiple form fields
And many more...

Execution Instructions

When the user runs this command:

Determine scope from arguments or ask:
- Default to local if not specified

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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.

8d ago First seen · 97 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 441056bba751

Subscribe to this mod's changes

install-playwright-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpoutrin/product-forge (16 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 614 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 2026-08-30.

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