browser-skills vs invisible_playwright_mcp
browser-skills is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑17.
browser-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by citrolabs. No marketplace we read lists it any more. invisible_playwright_mcp is an MCP server published by feder-cr. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-26. 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 |  invisible_playwright_mcp | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace citrolabs/ego-lite | Removed on 2026-10-17 Version: not stated Forks (GitHub): 948 Stars (GitHub): 17 480 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.73.0 Downloads/month (PyPI): 8 843 Downloads/week (PyPI): 1 620 Forks (GitHub): 117 Stars (GitHub): 883 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 | browser-skillsno longer listed · | invisible_playwright_mcp |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 2 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 17 480 | 883 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 948 | 117 |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-21 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (invisible-playwright-mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 1 | 2 |
| Licence (differs) | Not stated | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/citrolabs/ego-lite | github.com/feder-cr/invisible_playwright_mcp |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| 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 browser-skills
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Agentic browser automation with Playwright for testing, scraping, and UI interaction
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Automates browser interactions for web testing, form filling, screenshots, and data extraction
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Browser automation for web testing, form filling, screenshots, and data extraction via CLI
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Browser automation with Playwright for Python. Use when testing websites, taking screenshots, filling forms, scraping web content, or automating browser interactions. Triggers on…
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openbrowser-ai me.openbrowser/openbrowser-ai
AI browser automation. Write async Python to navigate, click, type, and extract data.
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Give Claude a real browser — your Chrome or a Browser Use Cloud browser. Use it whenever a task involves a website or web app: browsing, scraping and data extraction, filling…
What each says it does
browser-skills
Automates browser interactions for web testing, form filling, screenshots, and data extraction
invisible_playwright_mcp
AI browser agent: browses, clicks, types, and reads real web pages from plain-English instructions.
How to run each
browser-skills
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
invisible_playwright_mcp As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio invisible-playwright-mcp -- uvx invisible-playwright-mcpCommands 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
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: browser-skills · What it can do: invisible_playwright_mcp · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.