AI-Powered QA Testing with playwright-cli and GitHub Copilot
Most AI-assisted QA workflows assume you have access to everything: Playwright MCP configured in VS Code, Copilot Vision enabled, the embedded browser panel working. In an enterprise environment, those assumptions often don’t hold. Security policies restrict which tools can connect to which services. Features get disabled. The standard setup isn’t available. This post documents a different approach factoring in certain constraints. The combination: playwright-cli for browser interaction, GitHub Copilot CLI for the agent loop, and a plain natural language prompt describing what to test. No MCP. No generated test files. No vision model. Just a coding agent running shell commands against a real browser. ...