MCP: Add Server for NPM @playwright/mcp fails silently

[digitarald]

STR:

1. Add Server, NPM, @playwright/mcp
2. 🐛 Assisted detection sends an empty readme.
   • The page it fetches should be https://registry.npmjs.org/@playwright/mcp , which has an empty readme.
   • With an empty readme, we should even try to assist (maybe offer to add anyways).
3. 🐛 Assisted response doesn't return details.
   • Should be handled as error and the user can either retry or add as NPX entry.

npm view @playwright/mcp readme – empty. So the fallback is pulling it from GitHub.

[connor4312]

I really don't know what's going on here, it looks like an npm error. The readme does not appear in the API either for the main package or any of the versions of the package.

So the fallback is pulling it from GitHub.

Unfortunately no good in this case, because the associated repository is just playwright and their readme doesn't describe the mcp server.

[vs-code-engineering]

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