pw vs Argus — Testing for Coding Agents
pw is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑17.
pw is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Md Faiz Alam. No marketplace we read lists it any more. Argus — Testing for Coding Agents is an MCP server published by chriswu727. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-28. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  Argus — Testing for Coding Agents | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace afaizalam2003/master-claude-skill | Removed on 2026-10-17 Version: 2.1.2 Forks (GitHub): 2 Stars (GitHub): 2 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.11.0 Downloads/month (PyPI): 184 Downloads/week (PyPI): 172 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 4 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | pwno longer listed · | Argus — Testing for Coding Agents |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 2 | 4 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 2 | 0 |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-27 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (argus-testing) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | 5, secrets among them: 2 | Not published |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 2 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 7 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/afaizalam2003/master-claude-skill | github.com/chriswu727/argus |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 10 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of pw
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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pw
Production-grade Playwright testing toolkit. 9 skills, 3 agents, 55 templates, plus optional (manually enabled) TestRail/BrowserStack integrations. Generate tests, fix flaky…
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Playwright Pro turns your AI coding agent into a senior test automation engineer. Instead of generating tutorial-quality tests with brittle CSS selectors, Playwright Pro enforces…
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web-testing
Tests web applications in real browsers with Playwright end-to-end automation.
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Playwright automation toolkit with MCP integration, specialized agent for browser control, and best practice skills
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Agent Skill for general-purpose browser automation with Playwright. The agent writes and executes custom scripts for testing pages, validating UX, and automating browser tasks.
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Browser automation via Playwright CLI for testing, screenshots, and interaction workflows
What each says it does
pw
Production-grade Playwright testing toolkit. 9 skills, 3 agents, 55 templates, TestRail + BrowserStack MCP integrations. Generate tests, fix flaky failures, migrate from Cypress/Selenium.
Argus — Testing for Coding Agents
Testing MCP for coding agents: exercise real user journeys, find bugs, verify them with evidence.
How to run each
pw
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Argus — Testing for Coding Agents As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio argus -- uvx argus-testingCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
The marketplaces of Argus — Testing for Coding Agents publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: pw · What it can do: Argus — Testing for Coding Agents · Compare two other plugins
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