Is Playwright · Ashish-Bansal safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Playwright · Ashish-Bansal on public evidence — tashan score 40.0/100, it is currently abandoned, note: a single primary maintainer (bus-factor risk), no known advisories against the current release, its declared dependencies reach: browser. Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install Playwright · Ashish-Bansal?

In Claude Code: run `claude mcp add playwright -- npx -y playwright-mcp`. In Cursor / Claude Desktop, add it to mcp.json / claude_desktop_config.json.

Who maintains Playwright · Ashish-Bansal?

source: Ashish-Bansal/playwright-mcp.

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Playwright · Ashish-Bansal

npm

Playwright integration for ModelContext

Works with: Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cline, Windsurf, VS Code (installable)
installable: each client documents how to load an MCP server of this type — that is the client's promise, not a claim verified against this capability

Category: Browser & Web — see all ranked ›

Work: Browser automation

Who it is for: Software engineer · Operations

Install (Claude Code):

claude mcp add playwright -- npx -y playwright-mcp

Not graded: its documentation points at a page we cannot read, and shows nothing itself.

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tashan score: 40.0
Adoption: 6.0k/wk
Upkeep: 48.0
Freshness: 40.0
Evidence coverage: 100% of the inputs this score can use
Health: abandoned

Security audit

Every finding is shown in full — which advisory, the version that fixes it, and the exact command run at install time. Nothing in this audit is behind a licence.

No known advisoriesclearchecked against OSV for 0.0.19 — this package, not its dependency tree

1 vulnerable dependencyinstalls[email protected] — GHSA-37j7-fg3j-429f, GHSA-6q6h-j7hj-3r64 · found by resolving all 103 packages this installs and querying OSV at the version each resolves to, not by name

Drives a browserfrom declared dependencies

Can carry remote content into your agentit can pull third-party text into the model's context — treat what it returns as untrusted input

No build provenanceno attestation — the published artifact cannot be traced to its source

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Measured 2026-09-13 · scorer s5 · how · something wrong here?