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Summary

• The installation page pairs the local --version check with npx playwright cli --help.
  Both mislead on Playwright ≤1.58: --version passes, and cli --help prints the root
  help with exit 0 — the cli subcommand first works in 1.59.
• Scope the sentence to the playwright package (directly or through @playwright/test;
  a playwright-core-only project has no playwright bin), state the 1.59 minimum, make
  npx --no-install playwright cli list the deciding probe, route both failure branches to
  the global install, and keep --no-install on project-local invocations.
• On 1.60 and newer the local cli --help lists the commands the installed version supports.
• Companion PRs: microsoft/playwright
  (docs(cli): require playwright 1.59+ for the local cli fallback in the skill playwright#44032), microsoft/playwright-cli
  (docs(readme): require playwright 1.59+ for the local cli fallback playwright-cli#532).

Validation

Same matrix as microsoft/playwright#44031; tested on macOS only
(27.0.1, Node 24.21.0, npm 11.19.0), not tested on Windows. cli list started no
browser/daemon and created no .playwright/. npm run build-nodejs passes on this branch.

Refs microsoft/playwright#44031

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