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analyze-playwright-traces

Analyze Playwright reports and traces using the playwright-traces-reader CLI commands.

3|Updated Mar 17, 2026
Search Tags:#cli#playwright#trace analysis#network traffic#test debugging#report hub#dom snapshots
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/Kremliovskyi/playwright-traces-reader --skill analyze-playwright-traces-kremliovskyi
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: analyze-playwright-traces
Source: https://github.com/Kremliovskyi/playwright-traces-reader/tree/main/templates/skills/analyze-playwright-traces
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/Kremliovskyi/playwright-traces-reader --skill analyze-playwright-traces-kremliovskyi

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

💡 This Skill requires @andrii_kremlovskyi/playwright-traces-reader.

What problem does it solve? Debugging Playwright test failures requires digging through raw trace zips, report folders, and scattered artifacts. This Skill turns that into a structured CLI-driven workflow for locating reports, digesting traces, and extracting failure evidence. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Report Discovery: Search a local playwright-reports hub by metadata, date, or recency with search-reports, then resolve a reportRef into a local path with prepare-report. - Trace Digestion: Use digest to produce a self-contained folder with a chronological step tree, DOM snapshots, network NDJSON, and console logs for token-efficient analysis. - Targeted Inspection: Run summary, network, dom, timeline, console, errors, attachments, and screenshots against a single trace for focused questions. - Use Case: A QA engineer asks to find the latest UAT EU report, locate the failing "checkout" test, and explain why it failed — the Skill searches the hub, prepares the report, finds the trace, digests it, and reads digest.json for the answer. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to find the failing checkout test in the local playwright-report directory and digest its trace for analysis.

Frequently Asked Questions about analyze-playwright-traces

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I analyze a failed Playwright test trace?▼

Run the digest command with the trace path and an output directory to produce a self-contained folder with digest.json, network.ndjson, console.ndjson, and DOM snapshots. Read digest.json directly for the chronological step tree correlated with network and console events.

How do I find a Playwright report by name or date?▼

Use search-reports with a metadata query like "UAT EU" plus optional --range-start, --range-end, or --selected-dates filters against the local playwright-reports hub. Then run prepare-report with the returned reportRef to resolve a local analysis-ready path.

Can I find traces for passed or flaky Playwright tests?▼

Yes, the find-traces command locates traces for any test by name, including passed tests. Use the --outcome flag with values expected, unexpected, flaky, or skipped to filter results, and it returns trace paths for all retries.

Does the DOM snapshot include content inside iframes?▼

Yes, child iframe and frame content is inlined recursively as srcdoc, producing self-contained HTML with no external snapshot placeholders. The dom command writes JSON to a file via --output, with HTML stored in the snapshots phase fields.

What happens if the playwright-reports hub is not reachable?▼

The search-reports and prepare-report commands fail with a direct message that the report hub is not reachable at the requested URL. You can pass --base-url or set PLAYWRIGHT_REPORTS_BASE_URL to point at the correct hub address.

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