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Show HN: pw-repl – A Playwright-powered REPL for you and your agents to share

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# Show HN: pw-repl - A Playwright-powered browser tool for you and your agentsFor the busy people out there, the GitHub repo has a demo video so you can see if this is worth your time: https://github.com/arcanemachine/pw-replThe video was created by Opus 5.5; I just asked it to create a demo video (it has a 'record' tool), so I think this is a good idea of how well it can work with the tool.---pw-repl is a tool that makes it easy for you and your agents to work with Playwright+CDP in a browser (your current headed session, or a headless one, or both at the same time; take your pick).It's basically a Playwright-powered swiss army knife that helps you and agents poke around your browser: Try out different features of a website, break things (e.g. mock backend responses), take screenshots, record videos, etc.The GitHub repo shows a video, recorded by an agent using pw-repl: https://github.com/arcanemachine/pw-replOne cool thing it can do: create videos of bug reports. You can tell an agent about a bug and to use pw-repl to capture it, and it can record a video with the built-in toast feature to narrate its actions, and show a virtual mouse to simulate actions on the screen, as if it…

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