Week 45, updated 2 Nov 2026

Agent skills & MCP Playwright MCP

Is Playwright MCP safe?

Short answer: No issues found. StackGrade's weekly scan of microsoft/playwright-mcp found no issues: no critical-severity dependency advisories, no downloading install hooks, no remote-code patterns and no risky agent instruction files. Automated scan of commit ec572ee on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit.

Updated : the last week its score, rank or safety result changed.

Microsoft's MCP server that lets agents control a browser through Playwright.

  • 38,961 stars
  • pushed 1 Nov
  • Apache-2.0
  • TypeScript

github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp · www.npmjs.com/package/@playwright/mcp

45score out of 100

#32of 52 overall#6in Agent skills & MCP▲ 7 vs Week 44

  • Maintenance 30%46
  • Adoption 30%28
  • Docs 20%69
  • Community 20%–
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Score over the last 4 weeks: 36, 38, 38, 45.

No issues found

All checks clean in the scan of 2 Nov 2026.

How this score works

Each part is a percentile among all 52 tracked tools, so 50 is average for this list. Community is not measured yet; the score uses the other 80%.

  • Maintenance: Last push 1 Nov 2026. Last 10 GitHub releases within 144 days (about 1.9 per 30 days), latest release 31 Oct 2026. Median 33.8 h to close an issue (22 closed issues).
  • Adoption: 38,961 stars (70%), 3,361 forks (30%).
  • Docs: README 69,038 characters, 16 headings, 30 code blocks, install section: yes.

Methodology

#6 of 9 in Agent skills & MCP

Ranked by score. The yellow row is this tool.

Agent skills & MCP, Week 45score 0–100, safety
  1. 1Superpowers#13 overall62No dependencies scanned
  2. 2Context7#19 overall57Caution
  3. 3Agent Skills#25 overall53No issues found
  4. 4MCP reference servers#29 overall48No issues found
  5. 5awesome-mcp-servers#30 overall47No dependencies scanned
  6. 6Playwright MCP#32 overall45No issues found
Show the other 3
  1. 7wshobson/agents#38 overall42No issues found
  2. 8GitHub MCP Server#40 overall41No issues found
  3. 9skill-recorder#52 overall22No issues found

Safety scan, 2 Nov 2026

Automated scan of commit ec572ee, 38 files. Not a manual audit.

No issues found

  • 0Critical dependency advisories0 high, 0 medium, 0 low. OSV, runtime dependencies only.
  • 0Install hooksNo npm install scripts found.
  • 0Remote-code patternsFor example eval(fetch(…)).
  • 3Agent files checked0 phrases flagged for review.
  • 0curl | sh installersIn docs or program code. Information only.
Why this label?

No issues found by the automated scan.

Known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV): 0 critical, 0 high, 0 medium, 0 low

Notes:

  • 3 affected packages only in dev/test/docs manifests, not counted

Automated scan of commit ec572ee on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit. 38 files checked. What we check

Repo activity

From the GitHub API, fetched 2 Nov 2026.

  • 7Releases, 90 daysLatest v0.0.84, 31 Oct
  • 34hMedian issue closeOver 22 closed issues
  • 39kStars+325 since 26 Oct
  • 3.4kForks2 open issues
  • 2025Repo created21 Mar 2025
30 days ago2 Nov
1 release in the last 30 days, one mark each (GitHub releases feed, last 10 entries).

1 release in the last 30 days (GitHub releases feed, last 10 entries):

Questions about Playwright MCP

Answers use this week's StackGrade data.

Is Playwright MCP safe to use?

No issues found. StackGrade's weekly scan of microsoft/playwright-mcp found no issues: no critical-severity dependency advisories, no downloading install hooks, no remote-code patterns and no risky agent instruction files. Automated scan of commit ec572ee on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit.

How does StackGrade score Playwright MCP?

Playwright MCP scores 45 out of 100 in Week 45: #32 of 52 tracked tools overall and #6 in Agent skills & MCP. The score combines maintenance (46), adoption (28) and docs (69) as percentiles among all 52 tracked tools; community (20% weight) is not measured yet, so the score uses the other 80%. It is not a hands-on test and it is separate from the safety label.

What are the alternatives to Playwright MCP?

The highest-scored other tools in Agent skills & MCP this week: Superpowers (62, No dependencies scanned), Context7 (57, Caution), Agent Skills (53, No issues found), MCP reference servers (48, No issues found). StackGrade has not tested them hands-on.

What licence does Playwright MCP use?

The licence listed for microsoft/playwright-mcp is Apache-2.0. Read the licence text before commercial use.

Compare and use it

All facts and sources
Type
MCP server
License
Apache-2.0
Language
TypeScript
Created
21 Mar 2025
Owner
microsoft (Organization)
Forks
3,361

GitHub description: “Playwright MCP server”

Sources: github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp, api.github.com/repos/microsoft/playwright-mcp, raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp/main/READ. Fetched 2 Nov 2026.

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