playwright-use-chrome SKILL.md skillA
playwright-use-chrome from hankunpeng/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add hankunpeng/skills/playwright-use-chrome@git:20261019.c1e4b90Pins git:20261019.c1e4b90 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- hankunpeng/skills
- Path
skills/playwright-use-chrome/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261019.c1e4b90, committed Oct 19, 2026
- Size
- 5,246 bytes
- Repository stars
- 24
- License
- MIT
Configure and enforce Playwright to use the system's installed Google Chrome browser instead of downloading bulky bundled Chromium/WebKit/Firefox binaries (~1.5GB - 2GB). Use whenever writing or configuring Playwright tests, web scraping scripts, browser automation, E2E testing, or troubleshooting Playwright browser installation issues.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Playwright Use System Chrome
This skill configures and enforces Playwright to directly utilize the locally installed **Google Chrome** browser across TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python projects, eliminating redundant browser downloads (~1.5 GB to 2 GB) and keeping disk footprint minimal.
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## Agent Instructions & Strict Rules
When this skill is active, AI Agents must strictly adhere to the following rules:
1. **NEVER run `playwright install` or download browser binaries**:
- Do NOT execute `npx playwright install`, `playwright install`, or `npx playwright install-deps` unless the user explicitly demands testing with Firefox or WebKit.
- When adding dependencies or running package installation commands, prepend `PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD=1`:
```bash
PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD=1 npm install
# or
PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD=1 pnpm install
```
2. **ALWAYS specify `channel: 'chrome'`**:
- In `playwright.config.{ts,js}`, configure projects with `channel: 'chrome'`.
- In direct script launches (`chromium.launch()`), always pass `{ channel: 'chrome' }` (or Python `channel="chrome"`).
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add hankunpeng/skills/playwright-use-chrome@sha256:b1e0b49051eede2cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.c1e4b90, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 19, 2026.
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
hankunpeng/skills · 24 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7txw5dwyatxpa7hf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hankunpeng/skills/playwright-use-chrome GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b1e0b49051eede2c07a125d3f56c3788a2a4d90979cccf6c0319fb0e3095ac7f
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