microsoft/playwright-mcp v0.0.81 on GitHub

What's New

browser_webmcp_list / browser_webmcp_call — List and call the tools a page registers through the WebMCP API, letting the page do the work instead of driving its UI. When a page has WebMCP tools, the page status reports how many are available (#42613). WebMCP is experimental, see WebMCP in Chrome for how to enable it.

New --profile-dir-name <name> option (env PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_PROFILE_DIR_NAME) selects the Chrome profile to connect to in extension mode when the extension is installed in several profiles, for example "Profile 1" (#42527)
Headless browsers launched by the server are now closed after one hour without tool calls; the next tool call launches a new one. Use --idle-timeout <ms> (config timeouts.idle, env PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_IDLE_TIMEOUT) to change the timeout, 0 disables it. Headed and attached browsers are not closed unless a timeout is set explicitly (#42663, #42676)
--image-responses accepts only: a response that carries an image consists of the image parts alone, without the text part (#42672)

browser_close returns an error when the browser context is shared (--shared-browser-context) instead of breaking the calling client's session. This supersedes the v0.0.80 change that dropped the backend after browser_close (#42495)
With --shared-browser-context, browser_start_recording / browser_stop_recording (opt-in via --caps=devtools) keep each client's recording separate instead of delivering one client's recorded actions to another (#42622, #42627)
The file access check follows symlinks, so a symlink inside the workspace can no longer be used to read or write files outside the allowed roots (#42628)
Explicitly named output files in a nested directory (e.g. sub/shot.png) no longer fail with ENOENT; browser_file_upload and browser_drop resolve relative paths against the workspace root (#42540)
In extension mode with PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_EXTENSION_TOKEN set, a connection that never completes (e.g. the token belongs to another Chrome profile) now fails after 30 seconds with a hint instead of hanging the tool call forever (#42525)
Disable the Chromium sandbox by default on Linux for the bundled Chromium build, which lacks the setuid sandbox helper (#42490)