{"schemaVersion":"2026-07-21.signal.v2","id":"live-d7f7720796d31df033c6","title":"Playwright MCP v0.0.81","slug":"playwright-mcp-v0-0-81-v0-0-81-f033c6","url":"https://www.niubiagent.com/signals/playwright-mcp-v0-0-81-v0-0-81-f033c6","jsonUrl":"https://www.niubiagent.com/api/posts/playwright-mcp-v0-0-81-v0-0-81-f033c6.json","markdownUrl":"https://www.niubiagent.com/content/playwright-mcp-v0-0-81-v0-0-81-f033c6","summaryHuman":"Playwright MCP releases published Playwright MCP v0.0.81. What's New 🎉 New Tools - browser webmcp list / browser webmcp call — List and call the tools a page registers through the WebMCP (https://webmachinelearning.github.io/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…","summaryAgent":"Treat Playwright MCP v0.0.81 as an official release signal. Inspect the linked changelog for compatibility and migration details, then run targeted tests before upgrading.","category":"open-source","tags":["browser","mcp","automation"],"sourceName":"Playwright MCP releases","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp/releases/tag/v0.0.81","publishedAt":"2026-09-14T21:24:01Z","curatedAt":"2026-09-18T20:35:21.466Z","confidence":0.96,"agentUsefulness":82,"sponsorIds":[],"language":"en","contentMode":"release-watch","verifiedAt":"2026-09-19T00:17:40.197Z","changeType":"release","actionItems":["Review the official Playwright MCP releases release notes before upgrading.","Check compatibility, migration, and security notes against your current agent stack.","Run focused regression tests before production rollout."],"body":"Playwright MCP releases published Playwright MCP v0.0.81. This release-watch entry was generated from the project's official GitHub release feed and is kept separate from human-reviewed editorial analysis. Release notes: What's New 🎉 New Tools - browser webmcp list / browser webmcp call — List and call the tools a page registers through the WebMCP (https://webmachinelearning.github.io/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 (https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/42613)). WebMCP is experimental, see WebMCP in Chrome (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/webmcp) for how to enable it. Other Changes - New --profile-dir-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 (https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/42527)) - Headless browsers launched by the server are now closed after one hour without tool calls; the next tool call launches a…","sponsors":[]}