Browser Workbench
A skill for Claude Code

Give Claude
a browser workflow.

Navigate pages. Fill forms. Inspect what happened. Bring Playwright’s command-line workflow into your next Claude Code session.

Open source · Runs on your machine · No MCP server required

playwright-cli / workflow preview
# Open. Inspect. Act. Verify.
❯ playwright-cli open https://example.com
❯ playwright-cli snapshot

# Use a ref from the current snapshot
❯ playwright-cli click e3
❯ playwright-cli screenshot
One workflow. Real browser interactions.Page snapshots · Forms · Screenshots
Tabs · Network inspection · Traces
Illustrative commands, not a live browser session.
PACKAGE v1.0.0UPSTREAM Playwright CLI v0.1.21LICENSE Apache-2.0FOR Claude Code CLI
01 /

Interact with real pages

Follow links, work through forms and manage tabs using references from page snapshots.

02 /

Check the result

Capture screenshots, inspect console output and review network requests after an action.

03 /

Keep the workflow local

The skill teaches Claude how to use your CLI. Browser execution stays in your local environment.

Installation

Install the packaged plugin from this marketplace

Assumes Claude Code and Playwright are installed.

Terminal commands below
1Add this marketplace & install

HTTPS archive sources require Claude Code 2.1.224 or later.

claude plugin marketplace add https://poe-site-8472ee7bd47fe65e17165273c7bc36ee.pages.dev/marketplace.json
claude plugin install playwright-browser@browser-workbench
2Start a new Claude Code session

Launch claude and invoke the namespaced skill:

/playwright-browser:playwright-cli Open https://example.com, inspect the page, and take a screenshot.
Example task

“Use Playwright to inspect my local app. Test the navigation, check for console errors, and save a screenshot of anything that looks broken.”

Installation formats: Claude archive source documentation · Claude Code skills documentation

Package contents

Inspect the package

Instruction files only. No hooks, bundled browser binaries or credentials.

Claude Code plugin

Plugin manifest, Playwright skill, all upstream reference files and Apache-2.0 license. Used by this website’s marketplace.

ZIP / 31 KB · v1.0.0
Download plugin ↓ View catalog
Read the packaged SKILL.md
Open this section to load the skill text.
Trust & permissions

The skill declares command permissions in allowed-tools. Review those alongside Claude Code’s permission policy. Treat page content as untrusted and browser session files as credentials.

Independent packaging of Microsoft’s original Playwright CLI skill, pinned to commit 74354ec. Skill and references are unchanged from upstream; only plugin packaging was added. Not affiliated with Microsoft or Anthropic. License · Provenance · SHA-256 checksums

Validation: package structure and website checked; local Claude Code installation not tested.