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Explains how to develop Playwright - add APIs, MCP tools, CLI commands, and vendor dependencies.

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name: playwright-dev
description: Explains how to develop Playwright - add APIs, MCP tools, CLI commands, and vendor dependencies.

Playwright Development Guide

See [AGENTS.md](../../../AGENTS.md) for monorepo structure, build/test/lint commands, and coding conventions.

Detailed Guides

  • [Library Architecture](library.md) — client/server/dispatcher structure, protocol layer, DEPS rules
  • [Adding and Modifying APIs](api.md) — define API docs, implement client/server, add tests
  • [MCP Tools and CLI Commands](tools.md) — add MCP tools, CLI commands, config options
  • [Vendor Dependencies & Bundling](vendor.md) — utilsBundle, coreBundle, babelBundle; adding vendored npm packages; DEPS.list; `check_deps`
  • [Updating WebKit Safari Version](webkit-safari-version.md) — update the Safari version string in the WebKit user-agent
  • [WebView (iOS Safari) Backend](webview.md) — `webkit/webview/` against stock Mobile Safari; provisional-target pause/resume; what's upstream vs Playwright patches; local + CI test setup
  • [Bisecting Across Published Versions](bisect-published-versions.md) — reproduce regressions side-by-side from npm and diff `node_modules/playwright/lib/` between versions
  • [Dashboard](dashboard.md) - the UI powering the "playwright cli show" command, and how to work on it
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playwright-dev installs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf with the skills CLI, using each agent's flag shown on this page. Flowy's auto-invocation, which fires a skill when your prompt matches, runs in Claude Code only.