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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: 0.285s | 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. nikisweeting ◴[20 Oct 25 17:55 UTC] No.45646968[source]▶
Heh BrowserBase and Browser-Use exist specifically because this is a harder problem than it looks. Any approach will work for the first couple actions, that hard parts are long strings of actions that depend on the results of previous actions, compressing the context and knowing what to send, and having your tools work across all the edge cases (e.g. date picker fields, file upload fields, cross origin iframes, etc.).