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1.8Key Takeaways
- Traditional automation is brittle because it operates on exact selectors, not intent
- Agent skills teach agents domain-specific capabilities without adding new tools
- SKILL.md is a de facto cross-agent standard (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI)
- The six-layer stack separates intent (plans), reasoning (agent + skill), execution (Bash -> playwright-cli -> Playwright engine -> browser)
- The CLI-skill pattern was pioneered by Vibium (Jason Huggins, 2025) and mainstreamed by Microsoft's
@playwright/cli(2026)