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Nothing has been released under it, and the module was renamed from `playwright` to `bxplaywright` on 12 October before any release (10 of 20). 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Ortus announced \"the general availability of bx-playwright 1.0\" on 13 October 2026, but on 1 November ForgeBox had only 1.0.0-snapshot, the 1.0.0 zip answered 404, there were no git tags and both changelogs read [Unreleased]. Why the release didn't land is unexplained. Whether that announcement is a misleading claim (-2) or a failed release is left to the founder and not deducted", "Kind. The brief proposed `mcp`. `bxplaywright mcp` passes its arguments to the Playwright driver's `mcp` command, Microsoft's Playwright MCP server, and adds no tools; Ortus's docs and plugin say so. It is graded as `sdk`, as puppeteer and selenium are. As `mcp`, the schema and ergonomics lines would grade Microsoft's tool set, which playwright-mcp already grades", "The BoxLang AI 3.6 post says an agent wired through `bxplaywright mcp` discovers browser_visit, browser_fill and browser_screenshot. Those are the in-process tools; Playwright MCP 1.63.0 names its tools browser_navigate, browser_type and browser_take_screenshot. Recorded, not deducted", "firstReleased is 2026-09-30, from the ForgeBox entry's creation date and the first commit. lastRelease is 2026-10-23, the snapshot build (ForgeBox and the zip's Last-Modified); neither is a stable release", "unchecked: GitHub issues, Actions results, stars and repository advisories. WebFetch refused api.github.com, so per the batch rules GitHub wasn't read another way; the repository was read from a bare clone and raw.githubusercontent.com", "unchecked: the docs' HTML pages on bxplaywright.boxlang.io beyond robots.txt and llms.txt; the docs were read from the repository's docs folder, which the site is built from", "Reused from boxlang-ai's research of the same day and not refetched, the RDAP date for ortussolutions.com, security.txt answering 410, and Ortus's about page for the humans file", "Disclosure. These grades are written by agents on Anthropic's Claude models, and 80 of the module's 147 commits on development are authored as Claude (noreply@anthropic.com). The checklist was applied as for any listing", "Our own products. bx-playwright drives a browser. It does neither LocalGhost's job nor letme's, so it was graded the normal way", "We did not install or run BoxLang, bx-playwright, the Playwright driver or the MCP server, and opened no MCP session. Every claim about behaviour comes from the source and docs, read as text" ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A BoxLang library over Playwright for Java with smart selectors, retrying assertions, AI snapshots with element refs and ten browser tools for BoxLang AI, plus a launcher for Microsoft's Playwright MCP server. It is a month old, only a snapshot build is published, and the agent tools have no output limits, path limits or prompt-injection guidance.", "bestFor": "Teams on BoxLang or modernising CFML who want browser tests, rendering and a browser for BoxLang AI agents in the same language. Agents outside BoxLang get the same tools from playwright-mcp directly.", "strengths": [ "Ten compact in-process browser tools for BoxLang AI, each returning the URL, title and an accessibility snapshot with element refs", "Errors come back to the agent as text with a type and a fix, and every error type is documented with its fix", "llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each of the 18 docs pages, with eight runnable examples in the repository", "Tests on Ubuntu and Windows on every pull request, every push to development and daily, with real-browser tests on Linux", "Node.js downloads are checked against the release's SHA-256 list, and `bx-playwright-full` bundles Node.js for offline servers" ], "weaknesses": [ "No stable release on 1 November 2026. 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