Microsoft's Playwright MCP lets AI assistants like Claude explore apps and generate tests

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Microsoft has released the official Model Context Protocol server for Playwright, enabling AI assistants to automate browser interactions. The tool allows AI systems like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to navigate websites, click elements, fill forms, and extract page content through accessibility snapshots. This approach generates structured accessibility data rather than visual screenshots, creating tests based on semantic page roles and labels. Developers can use the tool to have AI assistants first explore an application's interface and then automatically write corresponding test scripts. The system supports various AI clients and requires only Node.js to run.

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