Playwright CLI

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Playwright CLI is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by github in gh-aw.

4.9K stars495 forkson github/gh-awAdded 2026/08/16Repository updated 2026/08/16

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Install Playwright CLI

Copy Playwright CLI into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/github/gh-aw/tree/main/.claude/skills/playwright-cli ~/.claude/skills/playwright-cli

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/github/gh-aw.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/playwright-cli/SKILL.md in github/gh-aw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/playwright-cli
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Playwright CLI does

Playwright CLI automates browser interactions and tests web pages via a command-line interface. Use it to navigate, click, type, inspect snapshots, manage cookies and storage, mock network requests, and debug with console and tracing.

Playwright CLI is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Playwright CLI comes from a repository tagged actions, cai, ci, claude-code and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Browser Automation with playwright-cli

Quick start

# open new browser
playwright-cli open
# navigate to a page
playwright-cli goto https://playwright.dev
# interact with the page using refs from the snapshot
playwright-cli click e15
playwright-cli type "page.click"
playwright-cli press Enter
# take a screenshot (rarely used, as snapshot is more common)
playwright-cli screenshot
# close the browser
playwright-cli close

Commands

Core

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Playwright CLI

What else does github publish alongside Playwright CLI?
Playwright CLI is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from github/gh-aw, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AWF Release Integrator, Agent Session CLI and Agent Task CLI. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Playwright CLI does, and is maintained by github in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the github/gh-aw page.
How does Playwright CLI compare to other Automation skills?
Playwright CLI ranks #297 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Playwright CLI against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.