playwright-cli

playwright-cli is a skill for Codex from PracticalSwan/agent-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (3,934 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line workflow for controlling a live web browser with Playwright. Playwright is a browser automation tool that can open pages, interact with controls, inspect page snapshots, and record traces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to navigate pages, fill forms, click and select controls, upload files, take snapshots, capture traces, and generate browser interaction code.
Why use it?
It lets an agent inspect and operate websites through repeatable commands rather than relying only on written instructions or manual clicking.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to navigate pages, fill forms, click and select controls, upload files, take snapshots, capture traces, and generate browser interaction code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/playwright-cli
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 PracticalSwan/agent-skills --skill playwright-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PracticalSwan/agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,934 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00041 $0.03934
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.01574
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00787
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00393

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cd499cf5b048, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

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 1mo 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.

playwright-cli/SKILL.md · 515 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 515 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"
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

Keyboard

playwright-cli press Enter
playwright-cli press ArrowDown
playwright-cli keydown Shift
playwright-cli keyup Shift

Read the full file on GitHub · 515 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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 515 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A cd499cf5b048

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playwright-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository PracticalSwan/agent-skills (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 3,934 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-13.

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