Playwright MCP 0.0.80 can record a human demonstrating a flow and hand back Playwright code

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microsoft/playwright-mcp v0.0.80, published 2026-09-01, adds `browser_start_recording` and `browser_stop_recording` behind `--caps=devtools`, capturing actions a user performs manually in the browser and returning them as Playwright code — useful when someone would rather demonstrate a flow than describe it (playwright#42359). A quietly important fix: `browser_take_screenshot` now returns the original screenshot bytes instead of silently downscaling them to model-specific limits (#42406), so agents were previously reasoning over degraded images without knowing it. The internal `/killkillkill` endpoint is also no longer registered outside tests (#42133).