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Have you tried the Playwright libraries? Not the MCP, instead telling Claude Code to use the Node.js or Python Playwright libraries directly. I have had some really good results for this for gnarly frontend challenges.

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Curious why not the MCP? I use that

When I have a bug I’m iterating on it’s much easier and faster to have it write out the playwright script. That way it does not have to waste time or tokens performing the same actions over and over again.

Think of it as TDD.

I don't really like MCPs, at least when I'm working with coding agents like Claude Code or Codex CLI. I'd rather let the agents write code that can do anything the underlying library is capable of, rather than restricting them to just the functionality that the MCP exposes.

It's more token efficient too since I don't need to load the full MCP description into my context.

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