playwright-trace
playwright-trace is a skill kept with the playwright-core package sources that teaches an agent to inspect Playwright trace archives from the terminal instead of the graphical trace viewer.
What the skill teaches
playwright-trace is a skill kept with the playwright-core package sources that teaches an agent to inspect Playwright trace archives from the terminal instead of the graphical trace viewer. Using npx playwright trace subcommands, the agent opens a trace zip, lists recorded actions with their IDs and timings, filters for failed ones, drills into a single action's parameters, logs and source location, and reviews network requests, console output, errors, DOM snapshots and screenshots before closing the extracted data. Its frontmatter limits the agent's shell access to those trace commands. The skill is instructions only.
Capabilities
- Open a Playwright trace file and show its metadata
- List recorded actions and filter failed ones
- Show one action's parameters, logs and source location
- Review requests, console output, errors and DOM snapshots from a trace
About
- Publisher
- Microsoft
- Tool
- Playwright
Install
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Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Skill | |
| Tool | Playwright | |
| Publisher | Microsoft | source |
| Official status | Officialin Playwright's own repository in the microsoft organisation | source |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Includes scripts | No | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | Last commit Nov 11, 202699,846 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | source |
| Links | Repository Website |
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Sources
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/microsoft/playwrightNov 14, 2026
- Licence file (LICENSE)github.com/microsoft/playwright · Backs: LicenceNov 12, 2026
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/microsoft/playwright · Backs: Official status, Publisher, Activity, LicenceNov 11, 2026
- Folder in the repository (playwright-trace)github.com/microsoft/playwright · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 14, 2026