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The two JSON shapes are from the VS Code MCP docs. The same material is on the VS Code page. Our Playwright fact sheet uses the package name on the registry entry, which is not the package name in the VS Code docs example. That difference is stated in the docs excerpt below.

From the VS Code docs

The VS Code MCP docs describe two file shapes. A workspace .mcp.json, and the user Copilot config, use a top-level mcpServers object. A .vscode/mcp.json file uses a top-level servers object. The examples below are copied from that page. They name GitHub's Copilot MCP endpoint and @microsoft/mcp-server-playwright. Those strings come from the VS Code docs, not from a re-check of the GitHub or Playwright registry entries on this site. Our Playwright fact sheet uses the package name on the registry entry, which is different.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp"
    },
    "playwright": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@microsoft/mcp-server-playwright"]
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "github": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp"
    },
    "playwright": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@microsoft/mcp-server-playwright"]
    }
  }
}

What this page does not call verified

The endpoints below answered initialize and tools/list on 2026-10-17 with no credential. That is Verified on MCPwell. It is not a test inside this client. Config snippets further up that name a product are either copied from that client's docs or, on a fact sheet, generated from a registry entry. A registry snippet is not a statement that we opened the client and connected.

• cloudflare — MCPwell · verified 2026-10-17 · 2 tools. URL https://docs.mcp.cloudflare.com/mcp.
• context7 — MCPwell · verified 2026-10-17 · 2 tools. URL https://mcp.context7.com/mcp.
• exa — MCPwell · verified 2026-10-17 · 2 tools. URL https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp.
• firecrawl — MCPwell · verified 2026-10-17 · 3 tools. URL https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp.
• draw-io — MCPwell · verified 2026-10-17 · 3 tools. URL https://mcp.draw.io/mcp.
• compiler-explorer — MCPwell · verified 2026-10-17 · 7 tools. URL https://godbolt.org/mcp.

13 other checked URLs, including Figma, GitHub, Notion, and Stripe, returned HTTP 401. They are listed on the badge page and are not in the list above. Read the security checklist before you approve a local command or a sign-in.

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