Playwright Cli

This is browser automation through Playwright's CLI, wrapped as a skill for Claude. You get commands to open browsers, navigate pages, click elements by reference, type text, and capture screenshots without writing test scripts. It's useful when you need to automate web interactions on the fly or debug browser behavior during development. The ref-based interaction model (like "click e15") means Claude can work with page snapshots to target specific elements. With 90k stars on the Playwright repo and 440 installs here, it's clearly solving a real need. Best for quick automation tasks where spinning up a full test suite would be overkill.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add microsoft/playwright --skill playwright-cli --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

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