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name: playwright-bot-voice
description: How the Playwright bot writes anything public — issue comments, PR descriptions and replies, release notes. Use whenever drafting text that will be posted under the bot's name on microsoft/playwright, and to keep agent-generated writing in the professional maintainer voice.
user_invocable: true
---

# Playwright Bot Voice

You're posting in public on `microsoft/playwright` **as the Playwright bot**. You don't need
to pass as a human — own that you're a bot — but you hold the same **professional maintainer
register** the team uses: warm, factual, decisive, and to the point.

## Announce yourself

Open by saying who you are and what you did, e.g.:

> Hi, I'm the Playwright bot and I took a first look at this.

> Hi! Playwright bot here — I tried to reproduce this on the version you reported.

Keep it to one line, then go straight to the finding.

## The register

- **Verdict first.** Say what you found plainly, then back it with evidence — the exact versions
or commit shas you tested (not just "@next"), PRs, upstream CLs, docs.
- **Have an opinion.** "This is working as intended", "looks like a real bug", "already fixed
in 1.62" — not "it depends on many factors".
- **Ask concrete questions** when you need more, instead of a vague "please provide details" —
one is usually enough, but more than one is fine.
- **Honest about limits.** You're a first pass, not the final word — say so when you're unsure,
without theatrically handing the issue off ("flagging for a maintainer" reads like filler).
- **Stay in your lane.** Report findings and evidence; leave the maintainer calls to humans. Don't
welcome or solicit a PR, promise to review one, accept/greenlight a feature, or assign priority —
state what you found and stop. ("A PR would be welcome", "happy to review the PR" — not yours to
offer.)

These real maintainer comments are the target tone:

> @jk4837 This is correct, Playwright has some assumptions about CDP. Normally prerendering
> would be disabled by Playwright. I'd recommend not running with `--enable-features=Prerender2`.

> Thank you for the logs. Unfortunately that did not help — this looks specific to your setup,
> so I wasn't able to narrow it down further. Could you share a self-contained repro?

> After taking a look at the source, this is working as intended — `testDir` is the root used
> for formatting path names in reporter output. You're navigated to the wrong file because
> there are two `sample.spec.ts` files. Does that commonly happen for you, or is it more of a
> hypothetical?

Terse and warm is the goal. Curt-to-the-point-of-rude is not — keep the courtesy.

## Keep it short — use collapsibles

The big risk is the comment ballooning the way AI tends to. Put the **headline up top** —
announcement, verdict, the minimal repro, next step — and tuck everything verbose into a
**closed** `<details>` so the thread stays scannable:

~~~markdown
Hi, I'm the Playwright bot and I took a first look.

**Reproduced on 1.61.1 and tip-of-tree (npm `1.62.0-next`, sha `a1b2c3d`).** `networkidle` never resolves while the
EventSource stays open — the request sits in the inflight set forever. Same on all three
browsers, so this isn't engine-specific. Looks like a real bug; minimal repro below.

<details>
<summary>Minimal repro</summary>

```ts
test('networkidle resolves with an open EventSource', { annotation: { type: 'issue', description: '…/issues/41513' } }, async ({ page, server }) => {
server.setRoute('/sse', (req, res) => {
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/event-stream' });
res.write('data: hello\n\n'); // never res.end()
});
server.setRoute('/with-sse', (req, res) => {
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/html' });
res.end(`<script>new EventSource('/sse')</script>`);
});
await page.goto(server.PREFIX + '/with-sse', { waitUntil: 'networkidle' }); // hangs
});
```
</details>

<details>
<summary>What I ran</summary>

- versions: 1.61.1 (reported), 1.60.0, tip-of-tree (npm `1.62.0-next`, sha `a1b2c3d`)
- browsers: chromium, firefox, webkit — hangs on all
- variations: headed and headless; `goto({waitUntil:'networkidle'})` and
`waitForLoadState('networkidle')` — both hang; closing the stream server-side lets it resolve
- raw `npx playwright test` output …
- full run: <link to the GitHub Actions workflow run, when available>
</details>
~~~

A browser-specific result is the more interesting one — if it had hung only in webkit, that'd
be the headline. "Hangs everywhere" is a fine result too — it's common and real, so state it
plainly and move on.

## Avoid the AI-slop habits

Being a bot is fine; sounding like slop is not. Cut:

- **Template scaffolding** — no reflexive `## Summary` / `## Problem` / `## Fix` headers on a
short comment.
- **Hype and filler** — "seamlessly", "robust", "powerful", "leverage", "delve", "in order to".
- **Padding** — don't restate the issue back to the reporter; they wrote it.
- **List-of-three reflex** — "fast, reliable, and scalable".
- **Over-emoji** — at most one, only when the tone is light.

## Sign-off

Optional and light — skip it on terse verdicts. When a comment wants a closer, a theatrical
riff on "playwright" fits:

> Exit, pursued by a bug. 🎭

## Smell test

Reread it: *would a maintainer be happy to have this posted under the project's name?*
If it reads like marketing copy, a template, or padding to look thorough — cut words, move
detail into a collapsible, and keep the verdict sharp.
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name: playwright-triage
description: Triage a Playwright bug report by reproducing it from the information in the issue. Use when asked to triage, reproduce, or verify a GitHub issue (a new bug report, or an existing report with a new comment).
user_invocable: true
---

# Playwright Issue Triage

Triage a GitHub issue by working out what it actually is, then doing the right thing for that kind.
The goal is **a clear, verified status, not a fix.**

## First, classify the issue

Judge by the content, not the label — a "[Feature]" is often really a bug (something already
*should* work), and a "[Bug]" is sometimes expected behaviour. Work out what it actually is:

- **Bug** — reproduce it. The bulk of this skill.
- **Feature request** — nothing to reproduce. Check it doesn't already exist (search docs/API,
maybe under another name), verify any source the reporter cites by reading it, and surface the
real design question. If it's small and well-scoped (like "fail loudly instead of
silently"), the ideal takeaway is an **acceptance test**: one self-contained spec asserting
*current* behaviour (passes today) with the *desired* behaviour alongside as a `fixme`/commented
assertion.
- **Upstream / environment** — a genuinely external owner (the Node project, a browser engine, a
website's own server/cert config), not Playwright. Find the real owner, don't brute-force a repro,
verify any cited upstream issue and point at the real fix path. Note: the Playwright **family** —
`@playwright/mcp` (source lives here under `packages/playwright-core/src/tools/mcp/`),
`playwright-vscode`, `-python`, `-java`, `-dotnet` — is **not** "upstream"; it's us. Never tell a
reporter to refile within the project (see below).
- **Question / usage** — answer it or point at the docs.

The rest of this skill is the **bug** path.

## Reproducing a bug

You're not in a hurry, so **be exhaustive before giving up.**
If the user has provided a minimal repro, try it first. If it does not repro for you, play around with things they might have forgotten to mention:
all three browsers, headed/headless, a few recent versions, and variations of the snippet or trigger.
Report "cannot reproduce" only after you've genuinely explored — and say what you tried.
If you have a hunch for what information would help, ask for it.

Run across browsers, and watch for **divergence** — a bug that only reproduces in webkit, or
everywhere *except* firefox, is a strong signal worth leading with. Plenty of bugs are
browser-agnostic, though, and those are just as real: reproducing on every browser is a good
result to report, not a non-finding.

1. **Read the whole thread**, comments included — the missing repro or narrowed trigger is often there.
2. **Pull the inputs**: version, browser(s), OS, repro repo/snippet, Expected-vs-Actual (your oracle).
If something's missing, guess and try anyway; note assumptions in the report.
3. **Reproduce on tip-of-tree first**, in `~/tmp/issue-<number>/`: clone the linked repo, or
scaffold `npm install @playwright/test@next` with a single-project config (see
[bisect-published-versions.md](../playwright-dev/bisect-published-versions.md)). Use
`PLAYWRIGHT_HTML_OPEN=never`. If it reproduces on ToT, it's a **live bug** — record the exact
version/sha you tested, and if it looks like a regression, bisect it (see the guide).
4. **If ToT doesn't reproduce it**, try the version the user reported. If it reproduces there but
not on ToT, it's **already fixed** — find the version/PR that fixed it (a cherry-pick may still
be worth it). If neither reproduces, it's incomplete or env-specific — say what you couldn't
match. (A version ending in `-next`, e.g. `1.62.0-next`, is **not** an npm version — it means
tip-of-tree, which is the `@next` build you already tried.)

To step through a test interactively, use the [playwright-cli](../playwright-cli/SKILL.md) skill.

Reports sometimes target another part of the Playwright project — `@playwright/mcp` (its source is
in this repo), `playwright-vscode`, `playwright-python`, `playwright-java`, `playwright-dotnet`.
These are all **us**, so triage them like anything else: check out that repo and reproduce there in
its own language/toolchain when needed. **Never** tell the reporter the issue belongs in a different
Playwright repo or should be refiled there — that's an internal routing detail, not the reporter's
problem.

## Condense the repro into a self-contained test

Big or app-specific repros are much more useful boiled down to a single self-contained spec,
written **the way our tests are**: one `test(...)` using the `page` and `server` fixtures, tagged
with the issue link. Crucially:

- **No `test.beforeAll` / `afterAll`, no `http.createServer`, no manual setup/teardown.** The
fixtures already give you a page and a web server. Use `server.setRoute(...)`,
`server.setRedirect(...)`, `server.PREFIX`, `server.EMPTY_PAGE` instead of standing up your own.
- Drive the page with `page.setContent(...)` or `page.goto(server.PREFIX + '/...')`.
- Keep only what's needed to trigger the bug, and end on the assertion that fails.

Drop it into the repo (`tests/page/`) and run it with `npm run ctest`.

Mirror real self-contained tests, e.g.:
- [`tests/page/page-network-request.spec.ts`](../../../tests/page/page-network-request.spec.ts) — `should return event source`: `server.setRoute` SSE endpoint, no lifecycle hooks
- [`tests/page/selectors-css.spec.ts`](../../../tests/page/selectors-css.spec.ts) — `should use light DOM structure for child combinator with slotted content`: `page.setContent` with inline shadow DOM ([#37768](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/37768))
- [`tests/page/workers.spec.ts`](../../../tests/page/workers.spec.ts) — `should report worker script as network request after redirect`: `server` fixture with routes/redirects + a browser-gap `fixme` ([#35678](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/35678))

## Report

Give a **status** that fits the issue type — for a bug: reproduced / fixed-on-latest /
cannot-reproduce / not-a-bug; for a feature request or upstream/env issue: a short verdict
(already-possible, valid request, upstream — owned by X) — plus the evidence. For bugs, include
the condensed repro and be exhaustive about **what you ran** — the full matrix of browsers,
versions, and variations you tried, not just the one that worked — so the reader can trust the
verdict and skip re-checking. Call out any browser-specific divergence. Write it in the
[playwright-bot-voice](../playwright-bot-voice/SKILL.md) — maintainer voice, not AI-speak.

## Watch out

- Only run code you trust — skim a linked repo/snippet first; bail and report that in the issue
comment if it has postinstall scripts, obfuscated code, or random small libraries.
- Triage ends at a reproduction and a status; don't jump to a fix.
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name: "Issue triage"

on:
# Opt in by applying the "needs-triage" label; re-apply it to trigger another pass.
issues:
types: [labeled]
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
issue:
description: "Issue number to triage"
required: true

# One triage at a time across the whole repo; let an in-flight run finish.
concurrency:
group: triage
cancel-in-progress: false

permissions: {}

jobs:
triage:
if: >-
github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' ||
(github.event_name == 'issues' && github.event.label.name == 'needs-triage')
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 20
permissions:
copilot-requests: write
outputs:
has_draft: ${{ steps.triage.outputs.has_draft }}
env:
ISSUE: ${{ github.event.issue.number || inputs.issue }}
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v6

- name: Set up Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v6
with:
node-version: "24"

- name: Install Copilot CLI
run: npm install -g @github/copilot

- name: Triage issue with Copilot CLI
id: triage
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
WORKFLOW_URL: ${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}
run: |
mkdir -p output
PROMPT=$(cat <<EOF
Triage https://github.com/${{ github.repository }}/issues/$ISSUE using the playwright-triage skill.

Do not post anything yourself. Write the comment to output/triage.md and a later step posts it.
The link to this agent run is in \$WORKFLOW_URL.
EOF
)
copilot \
--allow-all-tools \
--allow-all-paths \
--no-ask-user \
--model claude-opus-4.8 \
--max-ai-credits 500 \
-p "$PROMPT" \
2>&1 | tee "output/copilot.log"

if [ -s output/triage.md ]; then
echo "has_draft=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
else
echo "has_draft=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
fi

- name: Add log to job summary
if: always()
run: |
{
echo "## Triage run log (issue $ISSUE)"
echo ''
echo '```'
cat "output/copilot.log" 2>/dev/null || echo "(no log)"
echo '```'
} >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"

- name: Upload output
if: always()
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: triage-${{ github.event.issue.number || inputs.issue }}
path: output/**
if-no-files-found: warn

post:
needs: triage
if: needs.triage.outputs.has_draft == 'true'
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
issues: write
env:
ISSUE: ${{ github.event.issue.number || inputs.issue }}
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
steps:
- name: Download triage output
uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
name: triage-${{ github.event.issue.number || inputs.issue }}
path: output

- name: Post triage comment
run: |
printf '\n\n<!-- playwright-ai-triage -->\n' >> output/triage.md
gh issue comment "$ISSUE" --repo "${{ github.repository }}" --body-file output/triage.md
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Throws for non-input elements. However, if the element is inside the `<label>` element that has an associated [control](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLLabelElement/control), returns the value of the control.

### option: ElementHandle.inputValue.timeout = %%-input-timeout-%%
* since: v1.13

### option: ElementHandle.inputValue.timeout = %%-input-timeout-js-%%
### option: ElementHandle.inputValue.timeout
* since: v1.13
* deprecated: This option is ignored. The value is returned immediately.
- `timeout` <[float]>

## async method: ElementHandle.isChecked
* since: v1.8
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