Connect Playwright to Claude Code
Give Claude Code governed access to Playwright’s 27 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Playwright to Claude Code in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Claude Code then gets it through the same governed connection.
- 1
Approve Playwright in Runlayer
Add Playwright from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.
- 2
Connect Claude Code to Runlayer
Install the Runlayer CLI so Claude Code can reach Playwright, which runs on the user’s machine. Auto Sync can then write Playwright into Claude Code on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Claude Code setup guide - 3
Sign in to Playwright
Sign in the way Playwright requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
- 4
Use Playwright from Claude Code
Playwright’s approved tools appear in Claude Code. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
27 Playwright tools in Claude Code
Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude Code users can call.
Browser click
Perform click on a web page
Browser close
Close the page
Browser console messages
Returns all console messages
Browser drag
Perform drag and drop between two elements
Browser drop
Drop files or MIME-typed data onto an element, as if dragged from outside the page.
Browser emulate media
Emulate CSS media features for the page, for example switch between the light and dark color scheme.
Browser evaluate
Evaluate JavaScript expression on page or element
Browser file upload
Upload one or multiple files
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Claude Code
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Claude Code exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Playwright call from Claude Code passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Claude Code as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
Client hooks (available)
Capture supported prompts, reasoning, local and MCP tool calls, responses, and scanner decisions in real time.
Anthropic inference hooks (available)
With Claude Enterprise, Anthropic sends each governed Claude Code prompt to Runlayer before inference, with nothing installed on devices (Anthropic beta).
OTLP telemetry (available)
Claude Code can export OpenTelemetry logs to Runlayer for observe-only session reconstruction.
Stop a call before it runs (available)
Runlayer can deny a tool call before Claude Code runs it.
Block output after it runs (available)
Runlayer can block a tool’s output before Claude Code’s model sees it.
Redact output in place (available)
Runlayer can mask sensitive parts of a tool’s output in Claude Code and pass the rest through.
In Claude Code
- When a tool fails, Runlayer records the error but cannot hide it.
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