# mcp-playwright-tools

> Browser tools for AI assistants, as a Python library and an MCP server

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-playwright-tools/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/cuber-it/mcp-playwright-tools/tree/master/doc
- repository: https://github.com/cuber-it/mcp-playwright-tools/blob/master/CHANGES.md
- version: 8.1.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, model-context-protocol, playwright, browser, automation, tools, oauth
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-playwright-tools

### Description (declared)

# mcp-playwright-tools

**Version 8.0 — completely rewritten and revised.**

Browser tools for AI assistants: open pages, find and act on elements, read
what is there, take screenshots and PDFs, work with tabs, frames, cookies,
requests, dialogs and downloads, read the console and the network log.
Twenty-eight tools, usable as a Python library, from the shell, or served over
the Model Context Protocol.

- **The way of pointing is a parameter.** Every tool that works on an element
  takes `by`: `css`, `role`, `text`, `label`, `placeholder` or `testid`.
- **Contexts by name.** Every tool takes `context`. Each name is a browser
  context with its own cookies, storage and tabs, closed when nobody has used
  it for a while; the browser stops with the last one. A context can pass for
  a device such as a phone, and its login can be saved and used again.
- **Nothing gets lost**: tabs a page opens itself are listed and become the
  active tab; console messages, responses, dialogs and downloads are recorded
  from the moment a context opens.
- **A screenshot arrives as a picture**, an image content block.
- **Boundary**: nothing inside the browser needs a permission. Screenshots are
  written inside the allowed roots and `/tmp`, files are uploaded from the
  working directory and `/tmp`; a person on the host widens that for a limited
  time with a grant.
- **Server** over stdio or streamable HTTP with the MCP SDK, protocol revision
  2026-07-28, OAuth for HTTP.

## Installation

Python 3.12 or later.

```bash
pip install mcp-playwright-tools            # the library and pw-browse
pip install "mcp-playwright-tools[server]"  # and the MCP server
playwright install chromium                 # the browser Playwright brings along
```

A Chrome already installed on the machine works as well: pass
`--channel chrome` instead of installing a browser.

## Quick start

A client that starts the server itself, over stdio:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "playwright": {
      "command": …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- infra.browser-automation (1, declared)
- security.identity (1, declared)
- dev.filesystem (0.802, derived)
- dev.terminal (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-playwright-tools/ (first seen 2026-09-10T02:24:49.294Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-playwright-tools/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-playwright-tools · ARD identifier urn:air::server:mcp-playwright-tools