diff --git a/src/tools/screenshot.ts b/src/tools/screenshot.ts
index d508f21..0e4b4ce 100644
--- a/src/tools/screenshot.ts
+++ b/src/tools/screenshot.ts
@@ -75,10 +75,15 @@ const screenshot = defineTabTool({
 
     const buffer = locator ? await locator.screenshot(options) : await tab.page.screenshot(options);
     response.addResult(`Took the ${screenshotTarget} screenshot and saved it as ${fileName}`);
-    response.addImage({
-      contentType: fileType === 'png' ? 'image/png' : 'image/jpeg',
-      data: buffer
-    });
+
+    // https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp/issues/817
+    // Never return large images to LLM, saving them to the file system is enough.
+    if (!params.fullPage) {
+      response.addImage({
+        contentType: fileType === 'png' ? 'image/png' : 'image/jpeg',
+        data: buffer
+      });
+    }
   }
 });
 
diff --git a/tests/screenshot.spec.ts b/tests/screenshot.spec.ts
index cce0c3b..76083f2 100644
--- a/tests/screenshot.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/screenshot.spec.ts
@@ -264,12 +264,7 @@ test('browser_take_screenshot (fullPage: true)', async ({ startClient, server },
       {
         text: expect.stringContaining('fullPage: true'),
         type: 'text',
-      },
-      {
-        data: expect.any(String),
-        mimeType: 'image/png',
-        type: 'image',
-      },
+      }
     ],
   });
 });