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- Free with no card: cc-switch, playwright-mcp.
- Editor's picks: playwright-mcp, Firecrawl.
- No logged gotchas: playwright-mcp, Firecrawl.
| Field | cc-switchgithub.com | playwright-mcpgithub.com | Firecrawlgithub.com |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A desktop app replacing hand-edited config files across seven AI coding tools. Centralizes MCP server and Skills configuration with bidirectional sync, plus usage tracking, cost analytics, session history and cloud sync. Writes through SQLite so a crash cannot corrupt config. ~125k stars. | Drives a real browser and exposes the page to the model as a structured accessibility snapshot rather than a screenshot — so the agent targets elements deterministically without vision or pixel guessing. Adds network mocking, storage state, tracing, video and PDF generation. ~36k stars. | Turns arbitrary sites into LLM-ready markdown or schema-constrained JSON, handling JS rendering, crawling and cleanup. Scrape, crawl, map, batch, search-with-full-content, browser interaction and autonomous agent modes. Parses web-hosted PDFs and DOCX. Self-hostable (AGPL core). ~128k stars. |
| Category | Agent tools & orchestration | Agent tools & orchestration | Agent tools & orchestration |
| Cost tier | free | free | mixed |
| Pricing | Free · MIT | Free | Free 1,000 credits · $16–$599/mo |
| Why builders pick it | Useful once you have installed a dozen MCP servers and skills across projects and lost track of which config owns what. | This is how Claude checks its own work. Have it load the article page, verify the layout at three breakpoints, confirm images lazy-load, and catch the broken nav before you do. The accessibility-tree approach doubles as a free a11y audit on a publication site. | The archive-migration tool. Point it at an existing site and get every back-issue article as clean structured JSON ready for Supabase. Also the competitive-research tool — crawl other publications and extract their section taxonomy. Free tier is 1,000 credits; a typical archive fits inside $16/mo. |
| Watch out for | Carries affiliate-style provider promotions — worth knowing when reading its provider recommendations. | not logged | not logged |
| How to wire it up | brew install --cask cc-switch | claude mcp add playwright npx @playwright/mcp@latest | npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest init --all |
| Editor's pick | No | Yes | Yes |
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# Tool comparison — cc-switch vs playwright-mcp vs Firecrawl Source: Kbaise, a directory of tools that work with Lovable projects. Pick one and tell me why before writing any integration code. ## cc-switch (cc-switch) - URL: https://github.com/farion1231/cc-switch - Category: Agent tools & orchestration - Cost: free — Free · MIT - What it is: A desktop app replacing hand-edited config files across seven AI coding tools. Centralizes MCP server and Skills configuration with bidirectional sync, plus usage tracking, cost analytics, session history and cloud sync. Writes through SQLite so a crash cannot corrupt config. ~125k stars. - Why builders pick it: Useful once you have installed a dozen MCP servers and skills across projects and lost track of which config owns what. - Trap: Carries affiliate-style provider promotions — worth knowing when reading its provider recommendations. - Wiring: brew install --cask cc-switch - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/cc-switch ## playwright-mcp (playwright-mcp) - URL: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp - Category: Agent tools & orchestration - Cost: free — Free - What it is: Drives a real browser and exposes the page to the model as a structured accessibility snapshot rather than a screenshot — so the agent targets elements deterministically without vision or pixel guessing. Adds network mocking, storage state, tracing, video and PDF generation. ~36k stars. - Why builders pick it: This is how Claude checks its own work. Have it load the article page, verify the layout at three breakpoints, confirm images lazy-load, and catch the broken nav before you do. The accessibility-tree approach doubles as a free a11y audit on a publication site. - Wiring: claude mcp add playwright npx @playwright/mcp@latest - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/playwright-mcp ## Firecrawl (firecrawl) - URL: https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl - Category: Agent tools & orchestration - Cost: mixed — Free 1,000 credits · $16–$599/mo - What it is: Turns arbitrary sites into LLM-ready markdown or schema-constrained JSON, handling JS rendering, crawling and cleanup. Scrape, crawl, map, batch, search-with-full-content, browser interaction and autonomous agent modes. Parses web-hosted PDFs and DOCX. Self-hostable (AGPL core). ~128k stars. - Why builders pick it: The archive-migration tool. Point it at an existing site and get every back-issue article as clean structured JSON ready for Supabase. Also the competitive-research tool — crawl other publications and extract their section taxonomy. Free tier is 1,000 credits; a typical archive fits inside $16/mo. - Wiring: npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest init --all - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/firecrawl ## Quick read - Free with no card: cc-switch, playwright-mcp. - Editor's picks: playwright-mcp, Firecrawl. - No logged gotchas: playwright-mcp, Firecrawl. ## Rules 1. Prefer the free tier when no budget was stated, and say what the ceiling is. 2. Read the full dossier before integrating. 3. Fetch /api/public/models before writing any AI model ID.
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