Record · playwriterMCP serverOpen sourceVerified Sep 23, 2026

Playwriter

Let agents control your own running Chrome through an extension, with the full Playwright API via CLI or MCP.

Sources and review

Checked against public documentation on September 23, 2026. Suitability guidance is our editorial judgment; this is not a performance benchmark or an endorsement.

Best for

Automating tasks that depend on your real, logged-in browser state.

Avoid if

You want isolation; the agent acts inside your real browser profile.

About Playwriter

Playwriter connects agents to the Chrome you already run, with your logins, extensions and cookies, through a Chrome extension, instead of spawning a fresh browser. Agents run Playwright snippets in a stateful sandbox from a CLI or over MCP, with isolated sessions, shared tabs and tab groups for concurrent agents; the browser can also be reached from another machine through a tunnel.

Playwriter is an open-source project written primarily in TypeScript, with 3.9k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.

Install

npm i -g playwriter

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