Playwright is a framework for automating and testing websites through one API that drives Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. Developers use it for end-to-end tests, browser automation scripts, and AI-agent web interactions. The catalogue add-ons help coding and AI agents use Playwright for testing and browser automation.
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.
npx skills add microsoft/playwright --skill playwright-cligit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/playwrightWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/playwright/playwright-cli)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/playwright/playwright-cli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/playwright/playwright-cli/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/playwright/playwright-cli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/playwright/playwright-cli.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Snyk warn
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
- Socket pass
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 151 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 350 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 356 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 | $0.00019 | $0.03749 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.01500 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00750 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00375 |
Grade A, and why
playwright-cli 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 13d 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.
Copies of this mod
8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- playwright-cli — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
- playwright-cli — 100% identical, 79 lines differ
- playwright-cli — 100% identical, 79 lines differ
- playwright-cli — 100% identical, 79 lines differ
- playwright-cli — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
- playwright-cli — 100% identical, 79 lines differ
- playwright-cli — 100% identical, 79 lines differ
- playwright-cli — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 494 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Browser Automation with playwright-cli
Quick start
# open new browser
playwright-cli open
# navigate to a page
playwright-cli goto https://playwright.dev
# interact with the page using refs from the snapshot
playwright-cli click e15
playwright-cli type "page.click"
playwright-cli press Enter
# take a screenshot (rarely used, as snapshot is more common)
playwright-cli screenshot
# close the browser
playwright-cli close
Commands
Core
playwright-cli open
# open and navigate right away
playwright-cli open https://example.com/
playwright-cli goto https://playwright.dev
playwright-cli type "search query"
playwright-cli click e3
playwright-cli dblclick e7
# --submit presses Enter after filling the element
playwright-cli fill e5 "[email protected]" --submit
playwright-cli drag e2 e8
# drop files or data onto an element (from outside the page)
playwright-cli drop e4 --path=./image.png
playwright-cli drop e4 --data="text/plain=hello world"
playwright-cli hover e4
playwright-cli select e9 "option-value"
playwright-cli upload ./document.pdf
playwright-cli check e12
playwright-cli uncheck e12
playwright-cli snapshot
# search the snapshot for text or a regexp, returns matching nodes with surrounding context
playwright-cli find "Sign in"
playwright-cli find --regex "Sign (in|up)"
# wrap the regexp in slashes to add flags, e.g. /i for case-insensitive
playwright-cli find --regex "/sign (in|up)/i"
# save results to a file when a query produces too many matches
playwright-cli find "Add" --filename=results.md
playwright-cli eval "document.title"
playwright-cli eval "el => el.textContent" e5
# get element id, class, or any attribute not visible in the snapshot
playwright-cli eval "el => el.id" e5
playwright-cli eval "el => el.getAttribute('data-testid')" e5
playwright-cli dialog-accept
playwright-cli dialog-accept "confirmation text"
playwright-cli dialog-dismiss
playwright-cli resize 1920 1080
playwright-cli close
Navigation
playwright-cli go-back
playwright-cli go-forward
playwright-cli reload
What ships with it
10 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.
- references/element-attributes.md 665 B
- references/playwright-tests.md 1.7 KB
- references/pr-attachments.md 2.8 KB
- references/request-mocking.md 2.1 KB
- references/running-code.md 5.8 KB
- references/session-management.md 5.8 KB
- references/storage-state.md 5.2 KB
- references/test-generation.md 16 KB
- references/tracing.md 3.4 KB
- references/video-recording.md 9.2 KB
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.
- 13d ago Changed · +1 lines 49bebc4b652d
- 15d ago Changed · +3 lines e4ef68e6573c
- 17d ago Changed · +2 lines 9bba755285a4
- 24d ago Changed · +3 lines 1afb47e952db
- 27d ago Changed · -5 lines 85ef187460f7
- 28d ago Changed c94451849107
- 1mo ago Changed · +15 lines 6a9439020db8
- 1mo ago Changed · +37 lines 862ddb356d81
- 1mo ago Changed · +12 lines 25bf724821e6
- 1mo ago First seen · 426 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 1a609c93bff3
playwright-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/playwright (97,799 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 3,749 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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