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+/**
+ * Wraps the standard SearchBar to label search results from the MCP and
+ * Agent CLI doc sections. These sections mirror each other's page structure,
+ * and the Algolia crawler derives the result group header (hierarchy.lvl0)
+ * from the active sidebar category, so their results are otherwise
+ * indistinguishable, e.g. "Network & Storage" -> "MCP › Network & Storage".
+ * See https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/42006.
+ *
+ * Passing transformItems replaces the default one, which rewrites absolute
+ * Algolia URLs to site-relative ones, so this transform does both.
+ */
+import React, {useCallback} from 'react';
+import SearchBar from '@theme-original/SearchBar';
+import {useSearchResultUrlProcessor} from '@docusaurus/theme-search-algolia/client';
+
+const searchResultSections = [
+  {pathname: '/mcp/', label: 'MCP'},
+  {pathname: '/agent-cli/', label: 'CLI'},
+];
+
+function sectionLabelForUrl(url) {
+  try {
+    const {pathname} = new URL(url, 'https://playwright.dev');
+    return searchResultSections.find((section) =>
+      pathname.startsWith(section.pathname),
+    )?.label;
+  } catch {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+}
+
+function labelHierarchyLvl0(value, label) {
+  if (!value) {
+    return label;
+  }
+  // Highlighted values wrap matched words in markup and the group header
+  // strips it, so compare against the plain text.
+  const plainText = value.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, '');
+  if (plainText === label || plainText.startsWith(`${label} › `)) {
+    return value;
+  }
+  return `${label} › ${value}`;
+}
+
+function addSectionToSearchResult(item) {
+  const label = sectionLabelForUrl(item.url);
+  if (!label) {
+    return item;
+  }
+  const result = {
+    ...item,
+    hierarchy: {
+      ...item.hierarchy,
+      lvl0: labelHierarchyLvl0(item.hierarchy?.lvl0, label),
+    },
+  };
+  // The group header prefers the highlighted/snippeted lvl0 when present.
+  for (const propName of ['_highlightResult', '_snippetResult']) {
+    const lvl0 = item[propName]?.hierarchy?.lvl0;
+    if (lvl0?.value) {
+      result[propName] = {
+        ...item[propName],
+        hierarchy: {
+          ...item[propName].hierarchy,
+          lvl0: {...lvl0, value: labelHierarchyLvl0(lvl0.value, label)},
+        },
+      };
+    }
+  }
+  return result;
+}
+
+export default function SearchBarWrapper(props) {
+  const processSearchResultUrl = useSearchResultUrlProcessor();
+  const transformItems = useCallback(
+    (items) =>
+      items.map((item) => ({
+        ...addSectionToSearchResult(item),
+        url: processSearchResultUrl(item.url),
+      })),
+    [processSearchResultUrl],
+  );
+  return <SearchBar {...props} transformItems={transformItems} />;
+}