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6.4The MCP Server Didn't Die — It Got a Registry

Playwright MCP remains fully supported and is published to the official MCP Registry with every release. The 2026 division of labor:

Playwright CLI + skills — coding agents with filesystem access (the common case; ~4x cheaper in tokens).
Playwright MCP — sandboxed agents without a filesystem, and IDE integrations that speak MCP natively.
Test Agents — the packaged planner/generator/healer workflow on top of either transport.

The lesson for your architecture interviews: MCP and skills are transports, not religions. Microsoft ships both, recommends per-context, and so should you.