MCP Playwright

What it is

Microsoft's playwright-mcp is an MCP server that lets an LLM steer a real Chromium / Firefox / WebKit browser. It speaks the accessibility tree, not screenshots — so it's fast, deterministic, and doesn't need a vision model.

What you get (top 5 tools)

• browser_navigate — open a URL.
• browser_click — click an element by accessibility ref.
• browser_snapshot — capture the accessibility tree of the current page.
• browser_type — type into an input.
• browser_fill_form — fill many fields in one call.

Install

One line via the Claude Code CLI:

claude mcp add playwright npx @playwright/mcp@latest

Flags worth knowing:

• --headless — run without a visible browser window.
• --caps=vision — opt in to pixel-based clicks (when a11y refs aren't enough).
• --allowed-origins — restrict which domains the agent can hit.

Try it

Open the homepage of a site, snapshot the page, click the primary nav item, and verify the dropdown opens.

github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp — full tool reference and config flags.