playwright

playwright is a skill for Codex from netease-youdao/LobsterAI. It costs 45 tokens per session (994 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of playwright, MIT.

A command-line tool for controlling a real web browser. It can navigate pages, fill in forms, take screenshots, extract information, and investigate user-interface flows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for browser automation, form filling, snapshots, screenshots, data extraction, and debugging website interactions.
Why use it?
It lets an agent perform and inspect browser actions instead of only reading source code or making simulated requests. This helps test behavior that depends on an actual browser.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it for browser automation, form filling, snapshots, screenshots, data extraction, and debugging website interactions.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/netease-youdao/lobsterai/playwright
About the project

LobsterAI is an open-source desktop AI agent that operates files, commands, browsers, documents, spreadsheets, slides, messaging channels, and scheduled jobs in a user's working environment. It supports office work, research, and custom multi-agent workflows, while catalogue add-ons extend the agent with additional skills and workflows.

netease-youdao/LobsterAI · 6,007 stars · on GitHub · lobsterai.youdao.com

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 netease-youdao/LobsterAI --skill playwright
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/netease-youdao/LobsterAI

Made for: Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for playwright

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/netease-youdao/lobsterai/playwright/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/netease-youdao/lobsterai/playwright)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/netease-youdao/lobsterai/playwright"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/netease-youdao/lobsterai/playwright/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for playwright

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/netease-youdao/lobsterai/playwright"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/netease-youdao/lobsterai/playwright.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 994 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00045 $0.00994
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00497
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00099

Measured 11d ago against content hash ea742100596e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/playwright_cli.sh), 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to playwright — 13 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

SKILLs/playwright/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Playwright CLI Skill

Drive a real browser from the terminal using playwright-cli. Prefer the bundled wrapper script so the CLI works even when it is not globally installed. Treat this skill as CLI-first automation. Do not pivot to @playwright/test unless the user explicitly asks for test files.

Prerequisite check (required)

Before proposing commands, check whether npx is available (the wrapper depends on it):

command -v npx >/dev/null 2>&1

If it is not available, pause and ask the user to install Node.js/npm (which provides npx). Provide these steps verbatim:

# Verify Node/npm are installed
node --version
npm --version

# If missing, install Node.js/npm, then:
npm install -g @playwright/mcp@latest
playwright-cli --help

Once npx is present, proceed with the wrapper script. A global install of playwright-cli is optional.

Skill path (set once)

export SKILLS_ROOT="${LOBSTERAI_SKILLS_ROOT:-${SKILLS_ROOT:-$HOME/Library/Application Support/LobsterAI/SKILLs}}"
export PWCLI="$SKILLS_ROOT/playwright/scripts/playwright_cli.sh"

Installed skills resolve from $LOBSTERAI_SKILLS_ROOT / $SKILLS_ROOT (production default: app userData/SKILLs, macOS usually ~/Library/Application Support/LobsterAI/SKILLs).

Quick start

Use the wrapper script:

"$PWCLI" open https://playwright.dev --headed
"$PWCLI" snapshot
"$PWCLI" click e15
"$PWCLI" type "Playwright"
"$PWCLI" press Enter
"$PWCLI" screenshot

If the user prefers a global install, this is also valid:

npm install -g @playwright/mcp@latest
playwright-cli --help

Core workflow

  1. Open the page.
  2. Snapshot to get stable element refs.
  3. Interact using refs from the latest snapshot.
  4. Re-snapshot after navigation or significant DOM changes.
  5. Capture artifacts (screenshot, pdf, traces) when useful.

Minimal loop:

"$PWCLI" open https://example.com
"$PWCLI" snapshot
"$PWCLI" click e3
"$PWCLI" snapshot

When to snapshot again

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 11d ago First seen · 149 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A ea742100596e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

playwright is a skill published in the GitHub repository netease-youdao/LobsterAI (6,007 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 994 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to playwright, differing in 13 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

hive.browser-automation

Required before any hive-browser CLI command. The browser is driven from the terminal by running hive-browser ... --json via terminalexec — not via MCP tools. Teaches the browser lifecycle rules (the bridge attaches to the USER'S running Chrome — never kill or launch browser processes; timeouts are transport issues…

aden-hive/hive · 142 tokens

hive.linkedin-automation

Read before automating LinkedIn with browser tools. LinkedIn combines shadow DOM (#interop-outlet), strict Trusted Types CSP that silently drops innerHTML, Lexical composer, native beforeunload dialogs that hang the bridge, and aggressive spam filters — each has bitten us at least once. Verified flows for profile…

aden-hive/hive · 99 tokens

hive.x-automation

Read before automating X / Twitter with browser tools. Verified flows for post, reply, delete, search-and-engage, plus the Draft.js compose quirks that silently disable the send button. Includes the daily-reply and job-market-reply playbooks. Requires hive.browser-automation for the underlying screenshot + coordinate…

aden-hive/hive · 81 tokens

hive.slack-notifications-setup

Set up a Slack notification channel (Sentinel) for a colony by driving the browser — reuse or create the "Hive Sentinel" Slack app from a JSON manifest, install it, capture the bot + app tokens, create/select the channel via the Slack API, and turn Sentinel on so the colony can ping the user on Slack and accept…

aden-hive/hive · 136 tokens

browser-edge-cases

SOP for debugging browser automation failures on complex websites. Use when browser tools fail on specific sites like LinkedIn, Twitter/X, SPAs, or sites with Shadow DOM.

aden-hive/hive · 40 tokens

ha-browser

Hope Agent browser automation — the standard status → tabs → snapshot → act loop, stale-ref recovery rules, and what to do when login / 2FA / captcha / camera-prompt / dialog blocks progress. Load this skill whenever you reach for the browser tool. Trigger on: user asks the agent to open / control / click / scrape /…

shiwenwen/hope-agent · 140 tokens