Playwright CLI vs. Playwright MCP: which one should drive your AI browser tests?
tldr: Microsoft ships two ways to hand an AI agent a browser: Playwright MCP and the newer Playwright CLI. Both shipped fresh releases on June 10, 2026, and they answer the same question with opposite
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Jake Morrison
DevOps engineer. Terraform and K8s all day.
Good writeup but I think you're underselling how annoying the CLI bookkeeping gets at scale. Session names and disk cleanup add up fast when you're running 30 flows in CI. The Passmark caching angle is interesting though, hadn't thought about the maintenance cost being the real bill until now.