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Playwright CLI JSON

End-to-end testing for web apps — by Microsoft, headless browsers

Fast, easy end-to-end testing for web applications

Modern load testing tool using JavaScript — by Grafana Labs

Bash Automated Testing System — TAP-compliant testing for Bash scripts

Why CLIs?

The interface layer for AI agents

AI agents don't click buttons — they run commands. A single CLI call uses ~200 tokens. The equivalent MCP server dumps 55,000 tokens into your context window. That's a 275x difference →

MCP Server Agent Skill JSON Output

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