Playwright MCP burns 114k tokens for one workflow. Here's why, and what to do about it.
A recent r/ClaudeAI post measured a single Playwright MCP workflow at 114,000 tokens. Not a complex task — a 7-step navigation + form submission that ran in under a minute. Same workflow as a compiled tap.run: zero tokens. This isn't "Playwright MCP is bad." It's a structural property of running an
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