Playwriter

Let claude code, openclaw, codex and any agent control your Chrome browser via CLI or MCP.

About Playwriter

Playwriter is an open source tool that enables AI agents to interact with a user's actual Chrome browser session, maintaining existing logins, cookies, and extensions. Unlike typical browser automation solutions that launch a fresh browser instance, Playwriter connects agents to the user's real browser, reducing bot detection and preserving session state. It provides a Chrome extension and CLI, supports Playwright API commands, and offers features like accessibility snapshots, debugging, network interception, and video recording. The tool is MIT licensed and designed for integration with agents such as Claude, Cursor, and VS Code. Pricing information is not specified.

Best for: AI agent developers, automation engineers, QA testers, web developers

Key features

Allows agents to control the user's real Chrome browser session with existing logins and extensions
Provides accessibility snapshots for efficient page reading by agents
Offers session management and multiplexing for multiple agents or CLI instances
Works with Playwright API via CLI or MCP clients
Open source and MIT licensed

Use cases

Automating web tasks using AI agents in a logged-in browser environment
Screen recording and documenting browser interactions
Reverse engineering APIs and inspecting network traffic
Scraping JavaScript-heavy websites with agent assistance
Collaborative troubleshooting and remote support in real time

Pros

Maintains user logins, cookies, and extensions for agent sessions
Reduces bot detection by using the actual browser session
Open source with MIT license

Limitations

Requires Chrome or Chromium and Node.js 18+

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