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  "works": "(1) Started: @playwright/mcp 0.0.83 installed with npm --ignore-scripts into the sandbox (3 packages) and launched over stdio inside sandbox-run with --headless --isolated --no-sandbox --output-dir; initialize returned serverInfo 'Playwright' 1.64.0-alpha-1790635538000, protocol 2025-06-18. (2) tools/list loaded 25 tools (browser_navigate, browser_snapshot, browser_click, browser_take_screenshot, browser_tabs, browser_evaluate, browser_find, browser_run_code_unsafe, etc.). (3) Real calls worked: browser_navigate https://example.com (~0.6-2.6 s, title 'Example Domain'); browser_snapshot returned a YAML accessibility tree with refs (link 'Learn more' [ref=e13]); browser_take_screenshot saved a PNG (our internal notes); browser_click on the 'Learn more' ref generated getByRole('link',{name:'Learn more'}).click() and landed on https://www.iana.org/help/example-domains with a fresh snapshot; browser_tabs new opened example.org in a second tab and list showed both; browser_navigate_back worked. Every response includes the equivalent Playwright code, which is nice for codegen. Edge cases: data:text/html URL loaded and its snapshot showed the heading and link; file-scheme URL for /etc/hostname was refused ('Access to \"file:\" protocol is blocked'); screenshot filenames outside the workspace (absolute a scratch dir path and ../) were refused with 'File access denied ... outside allowed roots'; javascript: URL -> clear isError net::ERR_ABORTED; unknown ref e9999 -> 'Ref e9999 not found in the current page snapshot. Try capturing new snapshot.'; unknown tool -> isError 'Tool \"no_such_tool\" not found'; unresolvable .invalid host -> clean isError.",
  "breaks": "1) Out of the box it failed to launch Chrome in this environment (runs as root inside bubblewrap): every call returned 'Chromium sandboxing failed! ... Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported'; adding --no-sandbox fixed it. The error is clear but the server still answers initialize/tools/list as healthy, so the failure only surfaces on the first browser call. 2) browser_run_code_unsafe (arbitrary JS in the server's Node process, RCE-equivalent) is exposed in the default tool list with no opt-in flag; not exercised. 3) browser_navigate and browser_click don't return the snapshot inline; they write it to out/page-*.yml and return a link, so an agent needs a separate browser_snapshot call to see the page. 4) The element parameter was renamed: browser_click now requires 'target' (passing the older 'ref' key gives 'Invalid input: expected string, received undefined -> at target'), so older prompts/clients that send ref break. 5) In this sandbox's network (slirp4netns) Chrome intermittently got net::ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED (first click to iana.org and one wikipedia.org navigation); a retry worked, and curl from the same sandbox was fine, so this is most likely the environment, not the server. 6) chrome://version navigation is allowed (only file: is blocked by default). 7) browser_close's reply says 'No open tabs' while still listing two open tabs. Untested: headed mode, extension/CDP mode, HTTP/SSE transport, Firefox/WebKit, vision/pdf caps.",
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  "test_method": "scripts/prescreen npm @playwright/mcp 0.0.83 (clean) plus a registry check of the scripts and deps. Installed with 'npm install --ignore-scripts @playwright/mcp@0.0.83' inside 'sandbox-run testbuilder3' (HOME a scratch dir, /home and a scratch dir hidden). Drove the stdio server with a small Python JSON-RPC client (newline-delimited) that also ran inside the sandbox: initialize, tools/list, then about 35 tools/call across 5 server starts. Only public pages were used: example.com, example.org, iana.org (via the Learn more link), and one wikipedia.org navigation. Edge inputs: data:, file-scheme URL for /etc/hostname, javascript:, chrome://version, a .invalid host, a bad ref, an unknown tool, and screenshot paths outside the workspace. browser_run_code_unsafe and browser_evaluate were not called. Profiles were in-memory (--isolated) or Playwright temp dirs under the sandbox HOME. All servers and browsers were closed (browser_close plus process kill) and nothing was left running. Raw scripts and outputs are in our internal notes.",
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  "tool_version_tested": "@playwright/mcp 0.0.83 (npm latest; integrity sha512-oNcl+Ae2/IAjhfPeP46BfIkSakfmprY+aOtkv5MjrQ4lPav4/yNtPhL0iq8SlIM90oApWgBDUxaNKvktazUKOg==), bundled playwright 1.64.0-alpha-1790635538000, system Google Chrome stable, Node 22.20.0",
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    "claim": "Uses accessibility snapshots, no vision model needed",
    "status": "verified",
    "source": "Local run: browser_snapshot YAML refs drove fill_form/click/find"
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   {
    "claim": "Navigation to file-scheme URLs is blocked by default and file access is restricted to workspace roots",
    "status": "verified",
    "source": "file-scheme URL for /etc/passwd blocked; screenshot outside roots denied"
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    "claim": "Node.js 18 or newer",
    "status": "unverified",
    "source": "README; only tested on Node 22.20.0"
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   {
    "claim": "Playwright MCP is not a security boundary",
    "status": "verified",
    "source": "README; browser_run_code_unsafe default + RCE description; issue #1495 by design"
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   {
    "claim": "Install via npx @playwright/mcp@latest",
    "status": "verified",
    "source": "Packaged README contains multiple @latest install snippets (unpinned)"
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  "scoring_note": "Quality 4: start, tools/list, navigate, snapshot, click, tabs and screenshot all worked, with good file/URL safety errors in the edge cases. Not a 5 because of the root/--no-sandbox launch failure that only shows on the first browser call, the RCE-equivalent tool on by default, the snapshot not being inline after navigate, and the ref->target rename.",
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   "browser_run_code_unsafe (formerly browser_run_code) can run host Node, by design (RCE-equivalent per its own description and SECURITY docs / issue #1495); it is in the default tools/list with no opt-in. Not exercised.",
   "browser_evaluate runs arbitrary page JavaScript; with a prompt-injected page an agent could be steered to call it or browser_run_code_unsafe. Not exercised.",
   "Install docs use unpinned 'npx @playwright/mcp@latest', so each client start runs whatever npm latest is. Pin a version.",
   "chrome:// URLs are navigable by default; only file: is blocked.",
   "browser_run_code_unsafe is in the default tools/list (capability: core in playwright-core runCode.ts); description: 'Unsafe: executes arbitrary JavaScript in the Playwright server process and is RCE-equivalent.' No opt-in flag. Harmless title() exercised on a sandbox test page only.",
   "browser_evaluate runs page JavaScript (exercised only on local fixture).",
   "Install/README docs use unpinned 'npx @playwright/mcp@latest' across Cursor/Claude/Codex snippets \u2014 pin a version."
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   "tested": "2026-10-19T11:09:20-07:00",
   "note": "Confirmed full / 4. Different method: official MCP Python SDK ClientSession StdioClientTransport driving @playwright/mcp 0.0.83, against local HTTP fixtures served inside the sandbox (form fill/submit, textarea, table find) plus example.org \u2014 not the original hand JSON-RPC client / example.com-only path. Security flags verified in source and runtime: browser_run_code_unsafe is capability:\"core\" (default tools/list, 25 tools), description says RCE-equivalent; exercised only with async (page)=>page.title() on the local fixture. README still documents npx @playwright/mcp@latest unpinned. chrome://version navigable; file: blocked; screenshot paths outside workspace denied."
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