No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →
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Featured in: browser-use, Playwright MCP & AI Browser Agents
Playwright MCP A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides browser automation capabilities using Playwright. This server enables LLMs to interact with web pages through structured accessibility snapshots, bypassing the need for screenshots or visually-tuned models. Playwright MCP vs Playwright CLI This package provides MCP interface into Playwright. If you are using a coding agent, you might benefit from using the CLI+SKILLS instead. CLI: Modern coding agents increasingly favor CLI–based workflows exposed as SKILLs over MCP because CLI invocations are more token-efficient: they avoid loading large tool schemas and verbose accessibility trees into the model context, allowing agents to act through concise, purpose-built commands. This makes CLI + SKILLs better suited for high-throughput coding agents that must balance browser automation with large codebases, tests, and reasoning within limited context windows.Learn more about Playwright CLI with SKILLS.
| Stars | 37,274 |
| Forks | 3,165 |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Category | MCP Server |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Quality Score | 66.4329102601869/100 |
| Open Issues | 4 |
| Last Updated | 2026-09-18 |
| Created | 2025-03-21 |
| Platforms | mcp, node |
| Est. Tokens | ~24k |
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playwright-mcp is Playwright MCP server. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 37.3k GitHub stars.
playwright-mcp is primarily written in TypeScript. It covers topics such as mcp, playwright.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the playwright-mcp GitHub repository at github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp. The project has 37.3k stars and 3165 forks, indicating an active community.
playwright-mcp is released under the Apache-2.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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