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Playwright

By Microsoft

Microsoft's Playwright MCP gives the model an actual browser session. Heavier than fetch/scrape, but the only way to do flows that need login, JS, or screenshots.

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What you can do with it

  • Smoke-test a deploy by walking through a real user flow.
  • Take screenshots of pages a user describes for visual review.
  • Automate a flow inside a SaaS that has no API.

Works with

Claude DesktopClaude CodeCursorZedWindsurfCline

Other browser & web servers

Fetch

Download a URL and return clean markdown the model can read.

Brave Search

Search the web and get back results with summaries and citations.

Tavily

Search optimised for AI agents — returns clean, ranked, citation-ready content.

Firecrawl

Scrape pages and crawl whole sites with JavaScript rendering.

What is MCP, exactly?
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