E2E: Add a browse command to drive the local site from the command line by ellatrix · Pull Request #85525 · WordPress/gutenberg

ellatrix · 2026-10-25T16:53:31Z

What?

Adds npm run browse, a way to drive a browser on the local WordPress site from the command line with the e2e test utils, plus a browse agent skill that explains how to check a change with it.

Why?

Agents (and people) checking a change by hand need to open the editor, set up content, use the keyboard and read back the result, one step at a time. Today that means writing a throwaway Playwright script or an e2e test for every check.

How?

playwright-cli keeps one browser open between commands. Any command that isn't ours (snapshot, click, type, press, screenshot, ...) goes straight to it.
npm run browse -- open opens the dashboard, logged in through RequestUtils.setupRest().
npm run browse -- <command> runs a curated list of readable commands that call the e2e test utils on the open page:
- new-post, edit-post, site-editor: Admin navigation. new-post also takes content as block markup, set with editor.setContent(), because WordPress escapes markup passed in the URL.
- content: prints the post's block markup, or sets it.
- blocks: prints the blocks with all attributes, as JSON, or sets them from the same shape.
- insert, transform, keys, focus, save, publish.
- api <method> <path> [data]: REST calls as admin, like curl, through requestUtils.rest().
Arguments are read as JSON when they are JSON, otherwise as text.
A browser we connect to has no baseURL, so browse resolves page.goto() paths against WP_BASE_URL itself, as the test fixture already does for subdirectory installs. The e2e test utils are unchanged.
Each checkout gets its own browser, profile and session, so parallel worktrees don't share one. Chrome picks its own debugging port and writes it to the profile, so no port needs assigning. Snapshots and the profile go to the ignored test/e2e/artifacts/browse folder.

@playwright/cli depends on a pre-release playwright-core (1.64.0-alpha).

Testing Instructions

Start the test site (npm run wp-env-test start) or set WP_BASE_URL to another local site.
npm run browse -- open: a browser opens on the dashboard, logged in.
npm run browse -- new-post, then npm run browse -- content '<p>Hi</p>'.
npm run browse -- content prints the same markup.
npm run browse -- insert '{"name":"core/heading"}', npm run browse -- focus prints the heading, then npm run browse -- keys primary+z.
npm run browse -- blocks prints only the paragraph Hi.
npm run browse -- snapshot, click <ref>, type and press work on the same page.
npm run browse -- api POST /wp/v2/posts '{"title":"Hi"}' prints the new post; npm run browse -- api GET /wp/v2/nope prints WordPress's error message.
npm run browse -- close, then npm run browse -- blocks says no browser is open.

Testing Instructions for Keyboard

No UI changes.

Use of AI Tools

Written with Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5).

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

`npm run browse` keeps one browser open on the checkout's WordPress site. `open`, `new-post` and `blocks` use the e2e test utils; any other command goes to playwright-cli in the same browser. A new skill tells agents how to check a change with it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

github-actions · 2026-10-25T16:54:15Z

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media-processing

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media-upload

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🏁 Flaky tests

Some tests passed with failed attempts. The failures may not be related to this commit but are still reported for visibility. See the documentation for more information.

Backspace in /test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

Error: expect(received).toMatchObject(expected)

- Expected  -  5
+ Received  + 11

@@ -1,25 +1,31 @@
  Array [
    Object {
      "innerBlocks": Array [
        Object {
          "attributes": Object {
-           "content": "1",
+           "content": "1‸a",
          },
-         "innerBlocks": Array [
+         "innerBlocks": Array [],
+         "name": "core/list-item",
+       },
        Object {
+         "attributes": Object {
+           "content": "2",
+         },
          "innerBlocks": Array [
            Object {
              "attributes": Object {
-                   "content": "a‸2",
+               "ordered": false,
+               "values": "",
              },
-                 "name": "core/list-item",
-               },
+             "innerBlocks": Array [
                Object {
                  "attributes": Object {
                    "content": "b",
                  },
+                 "innerBlocks": Array [],
                  "name": "core/list-item",
                },
              ],
              "name": "core/list",
            },

Call Log:
- Timeout 5000ms exceeded while waiting on the predicate
    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js:2041:42

Custom Completer: should allow newlines after multiple option completions in /test/e2e/specs/editor/various/autocomplete-and-mentions.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

Error: expect(received).toBe(expected) // Object.is equality

- Expected  - 2
+ Received  + 2

@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@
  <!-- wp:paragraph -->
  <p>🫐 test</p>
  <!-- /wp:paragraph -->

  <!-- wp:paragraph -->
- <p>🫐 test</p>
+ <p>🍎 test</p>
  <!-- /wp:paragraph -->

  <!-- wp:paragraph -->
- <p>🫐 test</p>
+ <p>~🍎 test</p>
  <!-- /wp:paragraph -->

  <!-- wp:paragraph -->
  <p></p>
  <!-- /wp:paragraph -->

Call Log:
- Timeout 5000ms exceeded while waiting on the predicate
    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/various/autocomplete-and-mentions.spec.js:466:6

Custom Completer: should not insert disabled options in /test/e2e/specs/editor/various/autocomplete-and-mentions.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

Error: expect(received).toBe(expected) // Object.is equality

- Expected  - 1
+ Received  + 1

  <!-- wp:paragraph -->
- <p>Sorry, we are all out of ~g grapes.</p>
+ <p>Sorry, we are all out of 🍎 grapes.</p>
  <!-- /wp:paragraph -->

Call Log:
- Timeout 5000ms exceeded while waiting on the predicate
    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/various/autocomplete-and-mentions.spec.js:391:7

Delete (forward) in /test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

Error: expect(received).toMatchObject(expected)

- Expected  -  2
+ Received  + 25

@@ -1,25 +1,48 @@
  Array [
    Object {
      "innerBlocks": Array [
        Object {
          "attributes": Object {
-           "content": "1",
+           "content": "‸",
          },
          "innerBlocks": Array [
            Object {
+             "attributes": Object {
+               "ordered": false,
+               "values": "",
+             },
              "innerBlocks": Array [
                Object {
                  "attributes": Object {
-                   "content": "a‸2",
+                   "content": "a",
                  },
+                 "innerBlocks": Array [],
                  "name": "core/list-item",
+               },
+             ],
+             "name": "core/list",
            },
+         ],
+         "name": "core/list-item",
+       },
+       Object {
+         "attributes": Object {
+           "content": "2",
+         },
+         "innerBlocks": Array [
            Object {
              "attributes": Object {
+               "ordered": false,
+               "values": "",
+             },
+             "innerBlocks": Array [
+               Object {
+                 "attributes": Object {
                    "content": "b",
                  },
+                 "innerBlocks": Array [],
                  "name": "core/list-item",
                },
              ],
              "name": "core/list",
            },

Call Log:
- Timeout 5000ms exceeded while waiting on the predicate
    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js:2056:42

does not select blocks in the canvas preview when editing from the sidebar (Site Editor v2) in /test/e2e/specs/site-editor/navigation-sidebar-list-view.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

Error: expect(locator).toBeVisible() failed

Locator: getByRole('listbox', { name: 'Search results' })
Expected: visible
Timeout: 5000ms
Error: element(s) not found

Call log:
  - Expect "toBeVisible" getByRole('listbox', { name: 'Search results' }) with timeout 5000ms
  - waiting for getByRole('listbox', { name: 'Search results' })

    at LinkControl.useLinkControlSearch (/home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/site-editor/navigation-sidebar-list-view.spec.js:423:33)
    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/site-editor/navigation-sidebar-list-view.spec.js:179:3

moves selected text within a paragraph in /test/e2e/specs/editor/various/draggable-blocks.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

Error: expect(received).toMatchObject(expected)

- Expected  - 1
+ Received  + 1

  Array [
    Object {
      "attributes": Object {
-       "content": "second First third",
+       "content": "First second third",
      },
      "name": "core/paragraph",
    },
  ]

Call Log:
- Timeout 5000ms exceeded while waiting on the predicate
    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/various/draggable-blocks.spec.js:1209:41

preserves an opaque PNG without format conversion in /test/e2e/specs/editor/various/client-side-media-processing.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

Error: apiRequestContext.fetch: socket hang up
Call log:
  - → GET http://localhost:8891/wp-json/wp/v2/media?per_page=100
    - user-agent: Playwright/1.63.0 (x64; ubuntu 24.04) node/24.20 CI/1
    - accept: */*
    - accept-encoding: gzip,deflate,br
    - X-WP-Nonce: 911f995d1b
    - cookie: wordpress_test_cookie=WP%20Cookie%20check; wordpress_logged_in_da433b7faafd8180ebeb1624ceeeab7e=admin%7C1793206196%7CdYaCtRoo1vkO99AboDV0la9unTmB94IXeemYVMloGQf%7Cfbd508a73dc373223ea722edea34a014078e2bd8bdf6e570c07ecb8672663acb; wp-settings-time-1=1793033496

    at RequestUtils.rest (/home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/packages/e2e-test-utils-playwright/src/request-utils/rest.ts:111:39)
    at RequestUtils.listMedia (/home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/packages/e2e-test-utils-playwright/src/request-utils/media.ts:24:30)
    at RequestUtils.deleteAllMedia (/home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/packages/e2e-test-utils-playwright/src/request-utils/media.ts:85:27)
    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/various/client-side-media-processing.spec.js:215:22

should be immediately saved on indentation in /test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

Error: expect(received).toBe(expected) // Object.is equality

- Expected  - 1
+ Received  + 1

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
  <!-- wp:list -->
  <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item -->
- <li>one<!-- wp:list -->
+ <li>ne<!-- wp:list -->
  <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item -->
  <li></li>
  <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul>
  <!-- /wp:list --></li>
  <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul>

Call Log:
- Timeout 5000ms exceeded while waiting on the predicate
    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js:694:52

should change the indented list type in /test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

TimeoutError: locator.click: Timeout 10000ms exceeded.
Call log:
  - waiting for locator('role=toolbar[name="Block tools"i]').locator('role=button[name="Indent"]')

    at Editor.clickBlockToolbarButton (/home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/packages/e2e-test-utils-playwright/src/editor/click-block-toolbar-button.ts:17:15)
    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js:727:3

should create paragraph on split at end and merge back with content in /test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

Error: expect(received).toBe(expected) // Object.is equality

- Expected  - 1
+ Received  + 1

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
  <!-- wp:list -->
  <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item -->
- <li>one</li>
+ <li></li>
  <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul>
  <!-- /wp:list -->

  <!-- wp:paragraph -->
  <p></p>

Call Log:
- Timeout 5000ms exceeded while waiting on the predicate
    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js:461:52

should cut and paste individual blocks with collapsed selection in /test/e2e/specs/editor/various/copy-cut-paste.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

Error: expect(string).toMatchSnapshot(expected) failed

  @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
   <!-- wp:paragraph -->
  -<p>2Cut - collapsed selection</p>
  +<p>2</p>
   <!-- /wp:paragraph -->


    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/various/copy-cut-paste.spec.js:45:49

should format text across blocks in /test/e2e/specs/editor/various/multi-block-selection.spec.js, passed after 2 failed attempts.

Error: expect(received).toMatchObject(expected)

- Expected  - 1
+ Received  + 1

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
  Array [
    Object {
      "attributes": Object {
-       "content": "ab",
+       "content": "b",
      },
      "name": "core/paragraph",
    },
    Object {
      "attributes": Object {

Call Log:
- Timeout 5000ms exceeded while waiting on the predicate
    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/various/multi-block-selection.spec.js:2170:41
TimeoutError: locator.click: Timeout 10000ms exceeded.
Call log:
  - waiting for getByRole('toolbar', { name: 'Block tools' }).getByRole('button', { name: 'Bold' })
    - locator resolved to <button id="_r_3s_" type="button" tabindex="-1" aria-label="Bold" aria-pressed="true" data-toolbar-item="true" class="components-button components-toolbar-button is-compact is-pressed has-icon">…</button>
  - attempting click action
    - waiting for element to be visible, enabled and stable

    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/various/multi-block-selection.spec.js:2229:14

should gradually multi-select in /test/e2e/specs/editor/various/multi-block-selection.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

Error: expect(received).toMatchObject(expected)

- Expected  - 1
+ Received  + 1

  Array [
    Object {
-     "name": "core/column",
+     "name": "core/paragraph",
    },
  ]

Call Log:
- Timeout 5000ms exceeded while waiting on the predicate
    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/various/multi-block-selection.spec.js:1145:5

should indent and outdent a list item when its content is fully selected in /test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

Error: expect(received).toBe(expected) // Object.is equality

- Expected  - 7
+ Received  + 7

  <!-- wp:list -->
  <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item -->
- <li>a<!-- wp:list -->
- <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item -->
- <li>b</li>
+ <li></li>
+ <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul>
- <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul>
+ <!-- /wp:list -->
+
- <!-- /wp:list --></li>
- <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul>
+ <!-- wp:paragraph -->
+ <p>b</p>
- <!-- /wp:list -->
+ <!-- /wp:paragraph -->

Call Log:
- Timeout 5000ms exceeded while waiting on the predicate
    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js:819:52

should indent and outdent level 1 in /test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

TimeoutError: locator.click: Timeout 10000ms exceeded.
Call log:
  - waiting for locator('role=toolbar[name="Block tools"i]').locator('role=button[name="Indent"]')

    at Editor.clickBlockToolbarButton (/home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/packages/e2e-test-utils-playwright/src/editor/click-block-toolbar-button.ts:17:15)
    at /home/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js:775:3

should indent and outdent level 2 in /test/e2e/specs/editor/blocks/list.spec.js, passed after 1 failed attempt.

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`npm run browse -- <helper>.<method> [args]` now calls any method of `admin`, `editor`, `pageUtils` or `requestUtils`, in place of hand-written commands. `Admin` takes a `baseURL` like `RequestUtils` (the fixture passes the project's, `WP_BASE_URL` otherwise), so its navigation also works outside the test runner. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

`npm run gb` maps readable commands to the e2e test utils: `new-post`, `edit-post`, `site-editor`, `content` (get or set), `blocks`, `insert`, `transform`, `keys`, `focus`, `save`, `publish`, and `api` for REST calls like curl. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

`new-post` takes `content` as block markup and sets it with `editor.setContent()`, since WordPress escapes markup in the URL. `blocks` with an argument sets the blocks from the shape it prints. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

`npm run browse -- gb <command>` runs our commands, so they read apart from playwright-cli's: `npm run browse -- click e12` still goes to playwright-cli, and `open` opens the shared browser. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Our commands run directly, like `npm run browse -- blocks`; any other command still goes to playwright-cli. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

`npm run browse -- insert heading '{"level":3}'` inserts a core/heading; names with a namespace are used as they are. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Back to passing the block straight to `editor.insertBlock()`, in the same shape `blocks` prints, nested blocks included. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

`Admin` only builds full URLs from `baseURL` when it's passed in, so an `Admin` created by hand keeps following the browser context's `baseURL`. `browse` passes it, and the test fixture no longer needs to. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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`browse` resolves `page.goto()` paths against `WP_BASE_URL` on the page it connects to, as the test fixture does, so `Admin` needs no new option and the published e2e test utils stay as they are on trunk. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Runs open, new-post, insert, blocks and api the way an agent does, and checks the blocks and the REST response exactly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ellatrix · 2026-10-26T17:34:55Z

Let's try it, it's private and we can iterate as it gets used.

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ellatrix changed the title ~~E2E: Add a browse command to drive the local site from the command line~~ E2E: Add a gb command to drive the local site from the command line Oct 25, 2026

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ellatrix changed the title ~~E2E: Add a gb command to drive the local site from the command line~~ E2E: Add a browse command to drive the local site from the command line Oct 25, 2026

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E2E: Drop the gb prefix from browse commands

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Our commands run directly, like `npm run browse -- blocks`; any other command still goes to playwright-cli. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

E2E: Let browse insert take a block name and attributes

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`npm run browse -- insert heading '{"level":3}'` inserts a core/heading; names with a namespace are used as they are. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

E2E: Let browse insert take only a JSON block

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Back to passing the block straight to `editor.insertBlock()`, in the same shape `blocks` prints, nested blocks included. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

E2E: Mention video recording in the browse skill

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Add a browse command to check changes on the dev site Automattic/woocommerce-payments#12285

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Runs open, new-post, insert, blocks and api the way an agent does, and checks the blocks and the REST response exactly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ellatrix marked this pull request as ready for review October 26, 2026 17:31

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