I have successfully integrated this playwright mcp -Microsoft one ( adding tools ) to Claude code . We can now add a prompt and pass it in Claude code headless cli .. however the browser navigation is quite slow .. for example it takes more than 4 seconds for Claude code to login using username and password..

How did you speed up the process ..? I am using WSL2

Thanks in advance

No matter what I try, Claude code cannot access the Microsoft Playwright MCP. I'm searching for troubleshooting tips, but can't find anything. Is there anyone using it?

[EDIT] Solved, "claude mcp add playwright -- npx "@playwright/mcp@latest" worked.

I’ve been messing around with the new Playwright MCP inside Claude Code and it’s honestly wild.
It doesn’t just simulate tests or spit out scripts — it actually opens a live Chromium browser that you can watch while it runs your flow.

I set it up to test my full onboarding process:
signup → verification → dashboard → first action.
Claude runs the flow step by step, clicks through everything, fills the forms, waits for network calls, takes screenshots if something breaks. You literally see the browser moving like an invisible QA engineer.

No config, no npm, no local setup. You just say what you want to test and it does it.
You can even ask it to export the script if you want to run the same test locally later, but honestly the built-in one is enough for quick checks.

Watching it run was kind of surreal — it caught two console errors and one broken redirect that I hadn’t noticed before.
This combo basically turns Claude Code into a test runner with eyes.

If you’re building web stuff, try enabling the Playwright MCP in Claude Code.
It’s the first time I’ve seen an AI actually use a browser in front of me and do proper end-to-end testing.

Playwright MCP uses a session and prevents proper cache clearing. How many times did Claude tell me "Perfect Deployment!" only to open the console and see a row of errors? It's all about control and caching. Claude does just fine writing its own Playwright scripts. I can't see any use for the MCP at this point. Tell me if I'm wrong.

Just saw a YT video about using playwright mcp. All the behaviors described (screenshots, etc) are available to CC without installing or using MCP, so I’m just curious, is there value to using the MCP over simply asking Claude to “use playwright to visit blah and screenshot the results, review the error and fix”

Hey folks,

Following up on my earlier post I’ve been documenting everything I learned about Claude Code — massive thanks to everyone who shared feedback and ideas. It’s been super helpful.

Just pushed a round of new updates focused on making MCP server setup seamless:

• Step-by-step installation guides for popular servers — Playwright, Memory, Sequential Thinking, and more

• A consolidated troubleshooting guide for common issues across all MCP integrations

• Short, focused use-case breakdowns

The goal here was to make getting started with MCP servers as frictionless as possible — from install to real usage. Each guide includes working config examples and fixes for the most common setup pitfalls.

📘 Repo: Claude Code — Everything You Need to Know

If you’re looking to extend Claude Code with MCP servers, these additions should help you make better decisions while saving tokens and cost.

Feedback and contributions always welcome.

im not a coder or anything, just playing around for my own fun, so sorry if its a stupid question

but im trying to move and use cc on windows rather than wsl, any mcp im trying to install, is failing to connect

installasion command for example: claude mcp add playwright npx u/playwright/mcp@latest

any idea why? is there a problem with mcps support on windows for now?

I’ve been using a few MCPs in my setup lately, mainly Context 7, Supabase, and Playwright.

I'm just curious in knowing what others here are finding useful. Which MCPs have actually become part of your daily workflow with Claude Code? I don’t want to miss out on any good ones others are using.

Also, is there anything that you feel is still missing as in an MCP you wish existed for a repetitive or annoying task?

I am just trying to get a sense of the tools or hacks I am missing and collectively good for everyone to assess too :-)

After much trial and error I finally got functioning MCP servers in Claude Code albeit with slightly less will to live.

What are MCP Servers?

They're digital prosthetics that give Claude arms and legs to crawl around your computer with. Less poetically: extensions that let it do stuff beyond generating code you'll never actually use.

The Tools (★ = Requires API Key)

• Sequential Thinking: Helps Claude solve problems step‑by‑step

• Filesystem: Lets Claude rummage through the folders you allow

• Playwright: Modern multi‑browser automation

• Puppeteer: Chrome‑only (deprecated)

• Web Fetching: Grabs content from websites

• Browser Tools (Chrome DevTools Integration): Capture and analyze browser data through a Chrome extension

• ★ Brave Search: Web searching capabilities

• ★ Firecrawl: Advanced web scraping

🏃‍♂️ One‑Command Installation (The "I Don't Have Time For This" Version)

Copy everything in the block, paste into a macOS/Linux terminal, and hit ↵.

bash <<'EOF'
echo "🔧  Installing Claude MCP servers (latest versions)…"

# Sequential Thinking — Claude's chain‑of‑thought engine
claude mcp add sequential-thinking -s user \
  -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking || true

# Filesystem — give Claude access to local folders
claude mcp add filesystem -s user \
  -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem \
     ~/Documents ~/Desktop ~/Downloads ~/Projects || true

# Playwright — modern multi‑browser automation
claude mcp add playwright -s user \
  -- npx -y @playwright/mcp-server || true

# Puppeteer — Chrome‑only (deprecated but still works)
claude mcp add puppeteer -s user \
  -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-puppeteer || true

# Fetch — simple HTTP GET/POST
claude mcp add fetch -s user \
  -- npx -y @kazuph/mcp-fetch || true

# Browser‑Tools — DevTools logs, screenshots, etc.
claude mcp add browser-tools -s user \
  -- npx -y @agentdeskai/browser-tools-mcp || true

echo "--------------------------------------------------"
echo "✅  MCP registration finished."
echo ""
echo "🔴  To enable Browser‑Tools, run this in a *second* terminal and leave it open:"
echo "    npx -y @agentdeskai/browser-tools-server"
echo "--------------------------------------------------"
claude mcp list
EOF

Save this as install-mcp-servers.sh, make it executable (chmod +x install-mcp-servers.sh), and run it while questioning your life choices.

Windows users: you'll need a .bat file instead. Good luck with that!

# Essential MCP Servers (Individual Installation)

Sequential Thinking

claude mcp add sequential-thinking -s user \
  -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking

Lets Claude actually think through problems instead of making things up with confidence.

Filesystem Access (update paths as desired)

claude mcp add filesystem -s user \
  -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem \
     ~/Documents ~/Desktop ~/Downloads ~/Projects

Give Claude access to your files.

Playwright (multi‑browser automation)

claude mcp add playwright -s user \
  -- npx -y @playwright/mcp

Puppeteer (deprecated but still works)

claude mcp add puppeteer -s user \
  -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-puppeteer

Watch in existential dread as your browser operates itself.

Web Fetching

claude mcp add fetch -s user \
  -- npx -y @kazuph/mcp-fetch

Grabs content from websites.

Browser Tools

Gives Claude access to your browser's console logs, network traffic, and the ability to run performance/accessibility audits.

Step 1: Install the Chrome extension – download from the releases page and load it via Chrome’s extension manager. Step 2: Start the middleware server (keep this terminal open)

npx -y @agentdeskai/[email protected]

Step 3: Add the MCP server to Claude Code (in a separate terminal)

claude mcp add browser-tools -s user \
  -- npx -y @agentdeskai/[email protected]

Step 4: Open Chrome DevTools (F12) and find the BrowserTools tab.

★ Brave Search (Requires API Key)

# Replace YOUR_API_KEY_HERE with your actual Brave Search API key
claude mcp add brave-search -s user \
  -- env BRAVE_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE \
     npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search

Let Claude search the web and bring back results.

★ Firecrawl (Advanced Web Scraping — Requires API Key)

# Replace fc-YOUR_API_KEY with your actual Firecrawl API key
claude mcp add firecrawl -s user \
  -- env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR_API_KEY \
     npx -y firecrawl-mcp

For when you need to scrape websites with industrial‑grade efficiency and minimal respect for robots.txt.

# The -s user vs -s local Thing

• -s user: Makes these tools available globally

• -s local: Only works in your current directory

# Troubleshooting

• Windows issues: prepend cmd /c before npx commands

• Timeout errors: MCP_TIMEOUT=10000 claude

• Connection problems: Type /mcp in Claude Code to see which servers are napping

• Filesystem access: Double‑check your paths

That's it. Save yourself the four hours of my life I'll never get back.

PS – Yes, this was written mostly with the help of Claude.

EDIT: Apparently there were some stupid Reddit formatting issues. It converted the "@" to "u/", I'm such a noob, sorry! I updated the script to include playwright which is a pretty good alternative to puppeteer. Thanks all for pointing out my numerous flaws.

I’ve been using a few MCPs in my setup lately, mainly Context 7, Supabase, and Playwright.

I'm just curious in knowing what others here are finding useful. Which MCPs have actually become part of your daily workflow with Claude Code? I don’t want to miss out on any good ones others are using.

Also, is there anything that you feel is still missing as in an MCP you wish existed for a repetitive or annoying task?

Just wondering what MCP servers you guys integrated and feel like has dramatically changed your success. Also, what other methodologies do you work with to achieve good results? Conversely what has been a disappointment and you've decided not to work with anymore?

I have never heard of or used Playwrite until I just had issues with my Nextjs project using Tailwind 4 but CC was doing version 3 related implementations.

Suddenly Claude Code installed Playwrite & instead of just checking the code it literally looks at your site through tests to confirm: Hey the problem this dude has been saying is a problem, guess what it doesn't work!!!

Here's a link to it: https://playwright.dev/

Sorry if I sound new, but I'm not I've been study & coding for years I just never heard of this especially to use with Claude Code.

Is everyone using this already??

It seems that using Playwright or Puppeteer MCPs actually gives Claude Code “eyes” and “hands,” making it much easier to close the loop of coding → testing → validating → refactoring. However, the token consumption is massive, and after just one or two tests, the chat gets compacted. I tried delegating this to a subagent, but the results weren’t great. Do you have any tips for handling this? I’m also considering testing the browser-use MCP (https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use) - maybe I’ll give it a shot later today. Thanks!

Hello

I'm using the Playwright MCP with Claude Code on WSL. The problem is that I want it to open the browser installed on Windows, not the one on WSL. I used PLAYWRIGHT_CHROMIUM_EXECUTABLE_PATH="/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe" and also added it as executablePath in the config file. However, it still searches for the browser on WSL

I have setup Playwright and it's been amazing. However, I can't seem to get it to work across multiple instances of Claude CLI running.

Does anyone have any tips?