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 →
by remorses · MCP Server · ★ 3.9k
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Let your agents control your own Chrome, via CLI or MCP. Your logins, extensions, cookies — already there. Other browser MCPs spawn a fresh Chrome — no logins, no extensions, instantly flagged by bot detectors, double the memory. Playwriter connects to your running browser instead. One Chrome extension, full Playwright API, everything you're already logged into. Installation Install Extension from Chrome Web Store Click extension icon on a tab → turns green when connected Install the CLI and start automating the browser: Install the skill so your agent knows how to use Playwriter: Quick Start bash playwriter browser start # starts Chrome for Testing/Chromium with bundled Playwriter extension playwriter session new # creates stateful sandbox, outputs session id (e.g. 1) playwriter -s 1 -e 'await page.goto("https://example.com")'
| Stars | 3,906 |
| Forks | 184 |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Category | MCP Server |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 70.0218464170635/100 |
| Open Issues | 28 |
| Last Updated | 2026-09-16 |
| Created | 2025-11-13 |
| Platforms | browser, cli, mcp, node |
| Est. Tokens | ~17k |
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playwriter is Chrome extension & CLI to let agents control your browser. Runs Playwright snippets in a stateful sandbox. Available as CLI or MCP. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 3.9k GitHub stars.
playwriter is primarily written in TypeScript. It covers topics such as mcp, playwright.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the playwriter GitHub repository at github.com/remorses/playwriter. The project has 3.9k stars and 184 forks, indicating an active community.
playwriter is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
The top alternatives to playwriter on Agent Skills Hub include mcp-server-browserbase, web-eval-agent, reverse-api-engineer. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.
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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