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v1.56.0

Playwright Agents

Introducing Playwright Agents, three custom agent definitions designed to guide LLMs through the core process of building a Playwright test:

• 🎭 planner explores the app and produces a Markdown test plan
• 🎭 generator transforms the Markdown plan into the Playwright Test files
• 🎭 healer executes the test suite and automatically repairs failing tests

Run npx playwright init-agents with your client of choice to generate the latest agent definitions:

# Generate agent files for each agentic loop
# Visual Studio Code
npx playwright init-agents --loop=vscode
# Claude Code
npx playwright init-agents --loop=claude
# opencode
npx playwright init-agents --loop=opencode

Learn more about Playwright Agents

New APIs

• New methods page.consoleMessages() and page.pageErrors() for retrieving the most recent console messages from the page
• New method page.requests() for retrieving the most recent network requests from the page
• Added --test-list and --test-list-invert to allow manual specification of specific tests from a file

UI Mode and HTML Reporter

• Added option to 'html' reporter to disable the "Copy prompt" button
• Added option to 'html' reporter and UI Mode to merge files, collapsing test and describe blocks into a single unified list
• Added option to UI Mode mirroring the --update-snapshots options
• Added option to UI Mode to run only a single worker at a time

Breaking Changes

• Event browserContext.on('backgroundpage') has been deprecated and will not be emitted. Method browserContext.backgroundPages() will return an empty list

Miscellaneous

• Aria snapshots render and compare input placeholder
• Added environment variable PLAYWRIGHT_TEST to Playwright worker processes to allow discriminating on testing status

Browser Versions

• Chromium 141.0.7390.37
• Mozilla Firefox 142.0.1
• WebKit 26.0

• b6af258 cherry-pick(#37727): devops: fix NPM release step (#37728)
• d2ef7bb chore: mark v1.56.0 (#37722)
• 1621d0b cherry-pick(#37715): chore: disable RenderDocument feature (#37718)
• ffbf82b cherry-pick(#37687): docs: v1.56 release notes (#37687) (#37720)
• 2c5e33d cherry-pick(#37703): docs: pageErrors should return strings in Java and C#
• 0a91ecf cherry-pick(#37694): chore: move best practices into the journal
• a5c4437 cherry-pick(#37693): docs: use VS Code images for test agents
• 6d13fbe cherry-pick(#37690): Revert "fix(trace): survive sw restart"
• d2c267c cherry-pick(#37689): Revert "fix(trace): should survive ping as the first com...
• d1fdd81 fix(snapshot): draw a minimum size browser window for small snapshots (#37640)
• Additional commits viewable in compare view

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