Playwright MCP

Microsoft's MCP server for browser automation with Playwright, letting LLMs act on web pages via structured accessibility snapshots instead of screenshots.

Category

MCP Servers

Website

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp

Repository

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp

Status

active

Pricing

open-source

License

Apache-2.0

Maintainer

Microsoft

Added

2026-10-02

Updated

2026-10-02

Last verified

2026-10-02

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• mcp
• browser-automation
• playwright
• accessibility-tree

Description

Published on npm as @playwright/mcp. The README notes that coding agents may prefer the token-efficient Playwright CLI + skills (microsoft/playwright-cli) instead of MCP.

Related

• Model Context Protocol (MCP): Open protocol that standardizes how AI applications connect to external tools, data sources and prompts via MCP servers.
• Chrome DevTools MCP: Lets coding agents control and inspect a live Chrome browser via MCP (or CLI): automation, debugging, performance traces and Lighthouse audits.

Guides & comparisons

• Add MCP servers to Claude Code (Guide): Connect Claude Code to remote and local MCP servers from the command line, choose the right scope, keep tokens out of shared config, and check that each server connected, using GitHub and Playwright as examples.
• Coding agent starter stack (Stack): A terminal coding agent plus current library docs, GitHub access, a real browser and a sandbox, connected over MCP, with the configuration choices that keep it safe.
• Research agent stack (Stack): An agent that searches the web and the scholarly record, reads full sources, runs analysis code in a sandbox and cites what it found, with tracing so you can audit how it got there.

Sources

• https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp

Machine-readable

• JSON
• Markdown
• Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)