The first run downloads a browser, and it is a big download. That is Playwright's own step rather than ours, and it happens once per machine.
Open pages, click, type and read what is on them, driven by a real browser.
Listed by Terminal Deck — Microsoft has not claimed this profile.
- What it is
- MCP server — A server that gives an agent new tools.
- What it needs
- Needs Node.js
- On your machine
- Runs a program on this machine
- Who made it
- Microsoft @microsoft
- Price
- Free
browser playwright automation testing web
How to install it
Installing from Commons is not in version 0.15.0, the version you can download today — the Community shelf arrives in the next release. Until then this page is the record of what this is, what it would put on your machine, and where it comes from.
- Open Terminal Deck, go to Store, open the Community shelf, search for Playwright browser control and press Install.
- It is added as an MCP server your agents can call.
The command it runs, built by Terminal Deck and not by the publisher:
npx -y @playwright/mcp
It asks you for nothing.
The facts
- Publisher
- Microsoft
- Kind
- MCP server
- Version
- 0.0.79
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Shelf
- Driving a browser
- Repository
- microsoft/playwright-mcp
- Commit
- d0c29a5658b93b6e62435ceaf362a7d7dfc3522d
- Last updated
- 28 August 2026
Ratings
For AI readers
/@microsoft/playwright-mcp/llms.txt — the facts on this page as plain text. Microsoft has written no description of their own.
What this file is for
An assistant that lands on this page has to work out what this is from headings and a one-line summary, and it will guess. So every listing is also served as one plain-text file, at the same address with /llms.txt on the end. A publisher can put their own words in it by naming a text or markdown file in their terminaldeck.json, or by typing one when they publish.
The whole catalogue is served the same way: every listing as one line, or every listing in full with each publisher's own description. Everything Microsoft publishes is at /@microsoft/llms.txt.
Discussion
Ask Microsoft and everybody else using this.
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This listing is pinned to one commit. When a new version ships upstream, the shelf does not move until that version has been read and approved here.