Playwright MCP v0.0.81

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 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. 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 ) 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 (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 (…

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