Let AI Control Your Real Browser — Not a Throwaway One
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Most browser MCP servers launch a separate browser instance. Clean slate, no ↕ MCP (stdio) playwright-repl MCP server ↕ WebSocket ↕ CDP / chrome.debugger Your real Chrome tabs The key difference: Playwright runs inside the browser, not outside it. The extension uses playwright-crx to run the full Playwright API directly in Chrome's service worker. No Node.js relay, no separate browser process.