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

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186 points syntax-sherlock | 1 comments | 20 Oct 25 11:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.274s | source

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

1. mahdiyar ◴[20 Oct 25 16:30 UTC] No.45645773[source]▶
I have created a simple .sh command to do the testing using browser-use and add how to prompt this command in CLAUDE.md because it has to run a shell command, it is more deterministic than Skills. And it uses near to zero of context window compared to MCP.

Recently, I have found myself getting more interested in shell commands than MCPs. There is no need to set it up. Debugging is far easier. And I would be free to use whichever model I like ot use for a specific function. For example, for Playwright, I use GPT-5 just because I have free credits. I could save my Claude Code Quota for more important tasks.