playwriter

Automate your existing Chrome session.

browser automation

What it does

Automates the user's existing Chrome browser through stateful Playwright code.

When to use it

Use it to navigate JavaScript-heavy sites, login walls, and lazy-loaded interfaces through the user's existing browser.

Give it a browser-automation request; it controls the user's existing Chrome through Playwright code.

This skill

JS-heavy websites

Read

Reads sites through your Chrome

Chrome browser state

Write

Opens pages in your Chrome

playwriter session

Execute

Starts a stateful Playwriter session

The playwriter CLI must be available, directly or through the documented npx or bunx fallback.

Requires an existing Chrome browser instance rather than a newly launched browser.

Requires the Playwriter extension to control Chrome.