Agent Skill

Playwright CLI skill

playwright-climicrosoft/playwright-cliskills/playwright-cli/SKILL.md

Automate browser interactions, test web pages and work with Playwright tests.

14kApache-2.0

always on

19 tokname + description

once used

3,640 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

1052 KB

installs

193kskills.sh

Install the Playwright CLI skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli --skill playwright-cli

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli.git /tmp/playwright-cli
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/playwright-cli/skills/playwright-cli ~/.claude/skills/playwright-cli

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

When	What loads	Cost
Every session	Name and description	19 tok
When the agent uses it	The SKILL.md instructions	3,640 tok
Only if opened	10 bundled files (52 KB)	varies

Until it is used, playwright-cli costs about 72× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 2 skills from microsoft/playwright-cli would load 46 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash(playwright-cli:*), Bash(npx playwright:*), Bash(npx --no-install playwright:*). The agent can use these without asking while the skill is active.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

Browser Automation with playwright-cli
Quick start
Commands
Core
Navigation
Keyboard
Mouse
Save as
Tabs
Storage
Emulation
Network
DevTools
WebMCP
Raw output
Open parameters
URLs with & on Windows
Snapshots
Targeting elements
Browser Sessions
Installation
Example: Form submission
Example: Multi-tab workflow
Example: Debugging with DevTools

More skills from microsoft/playwright-cli

All skills in this repo

devmicrosoft/playwright-cli
Development workflows for the playwright-cli repository. Use when the user asks about rolling dependencies, releasing, or other repo maintenance tasks.
14k27 tok idle · 30 in use