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Playwright

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Macro Curiosity Trend

Daily Wikipedia pageviews tracking momentum. Dashed line represents 7-day moving average.

Commercial Validation

No explicit venture capital filings detected for entities directly matching this keyword phrase yet. This may indicate an early-stage, pre-commercial developer trend.

Media Narrative

Dominant Sentiment: Keyword Misalignment

Adjacent Technical Concepts

["prolific comedy playwright" "Modern AI coding isn't limited by model intelligence \u2014 it's limited by feedback latency" "French playwright Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais"]

Discovery Context & Origin Evidence

Raw data extracts showing exactly how engineers, founders, and researchers are utilizing the term "Playwright" in the wild.

GitHub Developer Issue

ADR-006: Extension Modularization & Install Infrastructure

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... as a monolith: 177K LOC in the core `gsd` extension, 20 bundled extensions, 19 bundled skills, 842 MB `node_modules`. Every user gets everything — playwright, koffi, every AI provider SDK, every skill — whether they use it or not. The extension system infrastructure is mature (discovery, registry, manifests, enable/disable, rich ExtensionAPI), but everything ships bundled. There is no mechanism to install, update, or uninstall extensions after initial setup. ### Problems 1. **Bloated install size** — 842 MB node_modules; users who never use browser automation still download playwright (14 ...
Top Community Discussions
jeremymcs • Mar 28, 2026
## ADR-006 Review: Findings and Recommendations As Grok, built by xAI, I've reviewed ADR-006: Extension Modularization & Install Infrastructure based on a deep exploration of the codebase and the ADR content. Here's my analysis and recommendations. ### Overall Assessment - **Architectural Soundne...
jeremymcs • Mar 28, 2026
## Research Findings (2026-03-28) 4 parallel researchers completed — Stack, Features, Architecture, Pitfalls. Full synthesis in `.planning/research/SUMMARY.md`. ### Stack - **One new dependency:** `semver ^7.6.3` — everything else uses existing deps or Node.js built-ins - **npm subprocess pattern...
jeremymcs • Mar 28, 2026
## Implementation Plan: Extension Modularization **Full plan:** [`.plans/IMPLEMENTATION-PLAN-extension-modularization.md`](https://github.com/jeremymcs/gsd-2/blob/feat/extension-system-analysis/.plans/IMPLEMENTATION-PLAN-extension-modularization.md) ### Summary **Goal:** Make GSD2 lightweight out...
jeremymcs • Mar 28, 2026
### ADR-006 & Implementation Plan Review I have completed a comprehensive review of the ADR and the [Implementation Plan](https://github.com/jeremymcs/gsd-2/blob/feat/extension-system-analysis/.plans/IMPLEMENTATION-PLAN-extension-modularization.md) against the current codebase. My analysis confir...
GitHub Developer Issue

CLI crawler fails on auth-protected routes — no way to pass cookies or session headers

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... Proposed API **Option A — Cookie file (most flexible):** ```bash npx boneyard-js build --cookies ./boneyard-cookies.json ``` Where the JSON is a Playwright/Puppeteer-compatible cookies array: ```json [{ "name": "session", "value": "abc123", "domain": "localhost", "path": "/" }] ``` **Option B — Auth headers:** ```bash npx boneyard-js build --header "Authorization=Bearer " ``` **Option C — boneyard.config.js:** ```js export default { auth: { cookies: [{ name: 'session', value: process.env.SESSION_TOKEN }], headers: { Author......

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