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Playwright MCP burns 114k tokens for one workflow. Here's why, and what to do about it.

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22 Mar
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29 Jun
Why Playwright MCP Cost Us 5 More Tokens Than We Expected

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29 Apr
Your AI agent wastes 13,000 tokens before saying "hello"

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