remorses/playwriter
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Chrome extension & CLI to let agents control your browser. Runs Playwright snippets in a stateful sandbox. Available as CLI or MCP
6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 3 stories, 3 comments · first 2025-12-07 · latest 2026-03-15
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I found this one working amazingly well (same idea - connect to existing session): https://github.com/remorses/playwriter
comment by zxspectrumk48 · 2026-03-15 · in Chrome DevTools MCP (2025) -
…on the page. It's an extension you can enable in Chrome and let agents control the browser via CDP https://github.com/remorses/playwriter
comment by xmorse · 2026-02-19 · in Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development? -
…API be exposed via your same CLI, so I don’t have to only control a separate browser instance. https://github.com/remorses/playwriter (I haven’t investigated enough to know how feasible it is, but as I was reading about your tool, I…
comment by TheTaytay · 2026-01-15 · in Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP -
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Playwriter: Playwright MCP with 80% less context windowstory by saikatsg · 2026-01-13 · 0 comments
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Playwriter: Browser extension MCP uses 90% fewer tokens than Playwrightstory by Areibman · 2026-01-12 · 0 comments
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Show HN: Playwriter MCP – Automate the Browser Using Cursor, Claude, VS Codestory by xmorse · 2025-12-07 · 1 comment