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Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP

Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP

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·October 20, 2025

I got tired of playwright-mcp eating through Claude's 200K token limit, so I built this using the new Claude Skills system. Built it with Claude Code itself.

Instead of sending accessibility tree snapshots on every action, Claude just writes Playwright code and runs it. You get back screenshots and console output. That's it.

314 lines of instructions vs a persistent MCP server. Full API docs only load if Claude needs them.

Same browser automation, way less overhead. Works as a Claude Code plugin or manual install.

Token limit issue: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp/issues/889

Claude Skills docs: https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills

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wild_egg

This was on my TODO list for the week, thanks for sharing!

Now I just need to make a skill for using Jira and I can go back to the MCP-free life.

wahnfrieden

Why not just ask the agent to use Playwright via CLI? That’s what I do and it works fine. With Codex anyway

Edit: oops that’s what you did too. Yes most MCP shouldn’t be used.