PlaywrightGen

PlaywrightGen

Playwright tests written from your real page, run until they pass, and kept as evidence a person approved.

Live at playwrightgen.com.

Writing a Playwright test is no longer the hard part — every editor has an assistant that will do it. What none of them keep is the thing an audit, a release decision or a customer actually asks for: which behaviour was agreed, by whom, at which version, and what the last run proved. That record is what this product is.

How it works

Two ways in, one chain.

The free tools need no account. Say what to test, paste a public URL, and PlaywrightGen reads the page, writes a test from its real accessibility tree, runs it in a remote browser, and fixes the failing step until it passes. You get working code and the run that proves it, signed so the evidence survives if you later bring it into a workspace. Nothing durable is claimed until you do.

The workspace turns that into a record:

1. A Requirement is drafted, reviewed and approved. Approving writes an immutable version.
2. Test Cases carry objective, steps and expected results, are approved the same way, and link to the Requirements they verify.
3. Automation is generated from an approved Test Case version, validated against deterministic rules, proven on the live page, and then approved by a person — never by the generator and never by an agent.
4. Run evidence arrives from your own CI. Your tests run on your runners, against your environment, with your secrets; only a bounded summary of results is sent. A [pwg:...] marker in the test title is what ties a result to the approved version it is evidence for.
5. A proof link shares the result outside the team: a signed URL anybody can open, with an acceptance signature and a downloadable file they can keep.

Every claim on that chain names its source. A requirement with no passing test says so; a run that was skipped says it proved nothing; a report that was bounded says how much it did not cover.

What holds it honest

• A prompt is a request; a validator is a rule. Every promise a prompt makes has a deterministic check behind it: no focused tests, no fixed sleeps, no credentials in the file, no request to an address that is not the application under test, no Node capability a browser test has no business reaching for.
• A repair may not weaken a test. The quickest way to make a failing assertion pass is to delete it, so a fix that checks less than the test it was given is refused.
• Separation of duties. The person who proposed something cannot be the one who approves it; the MCP server can propose and send code and has no capability to approve, accept, share or delete, which a test enforces by reading the import graph.
• Every AI surface is measured. npm run evals grades each prompt deterministically against structured output and compares the run with a hand-blessed baseline.

For agents (MCP)

PlaywrightGen is an MCP server, so Claude Code, Cursor or Copilot can read the approved intent instead of guessing: sixteen tools covering requirements, test cases, approved automation, recent failures, writing and proving a test on a live page, and proposing drafts for review. An agent gets exactly the rights of the person whose token it used.

Running it locally

npm install
npm run dev

Then npm run test:run for the suite, npm run typecheck, npm run lint, and npm run build. Integration tests need TEST_DATABASE_URL pointing at a database used for nothing else; they refuse anything that looks like production.

Built with Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL (Prisma), Clerk, Tailwind, Playwright, OpenAI and Stripe.

Environment

Runtime:

• DATABASE_URL — PostgreSQL for the application.
• DIRECT_URL — optional direct connection preferred by migration commands.
• TEST_DATABASE_URL — a separate database for integration tests. It never falls back to either of the above.
• NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY, CLERK_SECRET_KEY, CLERK_WEBHOOK_SIGNING_SECRET
• OPENAI_API_KEY — server-only. Per-surface model overrides exist, for example OPENAI_REQUIREMENT_REVIEW_MODEL and OPENAI_FAILURE_ANALYSIS_MODEL.
• UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL, UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN — the per-minute and per-day AI allowances.
• RUNNER_INGEST_SECRET — signs live-run receipts, so a receipt proves a run of that exact code.
• BROWSERLESS_API_KEY — the remote browser the free tools and proving use.
• EXAMPLE_EVIDENCE_PROJECT_ID — optional: the one project whose evidence is published publicly at /proof/example.

GitHub integration (separate values per environment):

• GITHUB_APP_ID, GITHUB_APP_PRIVATE_KEY, GITHUB_APP_SLUG, GITHUB_APP_CLIENT_ID, GITHUB_APP_CLIENT_SECRET, GITHUB_WEBHOOK_SECRET
• GITHUB_SETUP_STATE_SECRET — at least 32 characters, distinct from every other secret.
• NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL — the exact origin the GitHub callback returns to.

The App is held to a permission ceiling, checked on every installation and refused if exceeded: metadata: read, contents: read and write, pull_requests: read and write, issues: read. Contents write is what opens a pull request with approved test code; pull-requests write is what leaves the evidence note on it; issues read is what drafts a requirement from a ticket. User and installation tokens are transient and are never logged or stored.

Clerk webhooks go to /api/webhooks/clerk with CLERK_WEBHOOK_SIGNING_SECRET set locally and in the deployment, subscribed to:

• user.created, user.updated, user.deleted
• organization.created, organization.updated, organization.deleted
• organizationMembership.created, organizationMembership.updated, organizationMembership.deleted

Local webhook delivery needs a secure tunnel to the local application. Never put a webhook secret in documentation or source control.

Operations

Reconcile one Clerk organization, dry-run by default:

npm run clerk:reconcile -- --organization-id org_example
# or
npm run clerk:reconcile -- --slug workspace-slug

Add --apply after reading the dry-run counts. It never sweeps every organization.

Database:

npm run prisma:format
npm run prisma:validate
npm run prisma:generate
npm run prisma:migrate:dev
npm run test:database

Never commit credentials, secrets, .env or .env.local. Never point a development migration or reset command at production.

Where the work is written down

• docs/ROADMAP.md — what shipped, what is next, and what was deliberately not done.
• docs/DECISIONS.md — architecture decisions, each with its reason.
• docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/PRODUCTION_READINESS.md — the shape of the system and the gates before a production deploy.
• examples/ci-proof — a disposable repository that proves the CI loop end to end.