Playwright CLI Files

Highlights

• Search a large snapshot instead of capturing the whole thing — the new find command searches the page snapshot for text or a regexp and returns just the matching nodes with surrounding context (like grep -C), keeping big pages out of the model context. ([microsoft/playwright#41605](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/41605), [microsoft/playwright#41654](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/41654))
• Mobile emulation — open --mobile emulates a generic mobile device (Pixel for Chromium, iPhone for WebKit) and --device="iPhone 15" targets a specific one; mobile pages are usually lighter, so snapshots are smaller and cheaper. ([microsoft/playwright#41657](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/41657))
• Leaner snapshots — AI snapshots are distilled to be less verbose, cutting token cost on every command that returns page state. ([microsoft/playwright#41604](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/41604))
• Local invocation via npx playwright cli — the CLI is now exposed as playwright cli (and playwright mcp), so a locally installed Playwright can drive it without a separate global install. ([microsoft/playwright#41577](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/41577))

Fixes

• feat(mcp): surface non-2xx navigation status — navigation now reports the HTTP status instead of silently succeeding on error responses. ([microsoft/playwright#41589](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/41589))
• fix(mcp): enable the chromium sandbox for the default browser — the default Chromium browser now runs sandboxed. ([microsoft/playwright#41652](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/41652))
• fix(routing): normalize literal glob components through new URL() — route patterns with literal glob characters now match reliably. ([microsoft/playwright#41682](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/41682))
• fix(mcp): close isolated HTTP client context on disconnect — isolated sessions release their context cleanly on disconnect. ([microsoft/playwright#41560](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/41560))