1.1Why this chapter exists

Do not start a real Playwright automation repo from a generic harness template alone.

A generic template is useful only as a starting architecture. Before Claude Code creates folders, files, agents, page objects, API clients, and starter tests, it needs application-specific truth. That truth must be written into a small set of predictable artifacts.

This chapter is the discovery and customization phase.

Its job is to turn:

generic harness principles

into:

application-specific scaffolding inputs

Only after this chapter is complete should you move to the scaffolding chapter.