Drive a browser

Playwright MCP

Open-source MCP server that lets an agent drive a local browser through page accessibility snapshots, returning page state as text.

Rate limits

Rate limit: Not published

Other limits

Action timeout: 5000 ms by default1
Navigation timeout: 60000 ms by default1
Idle timeout: Headless browsers close after one hour idle; headed browsers never1

Read from Microsoft’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/drive-a-browser/playwright-mcp.md