hyperresearch-browser-fetcher

hyperresearch-browser-fetcher is an agent for coding agents from jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch. It costs 134 tokens per session (1,438 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A browser-based research worker that fetches web pages through the user's Chrome browser when ordinary automated crawlers cannot access them. It handles sources such as login-gated pages, bot-protected sites, interactive pages, rendered PDFs, and Google Scholar.

In plain words
What is it for?
Processing queued research URLs, reading content visible in the user's browser, summarizing fetched sources, and reporting pages that need human access.
Why use it?
It provides a way to read difficult-to-fetch sources while respecting account boundaries and stopping when a CAPTCHA, two-factor check, or login is required.

Agent

About the project

Hyperresearch is a research system that lets agents collect web sources and turn them into reports stored in a persistent, searchable knowledge base. It is used for deep web research with source tracking, citation checks, and audits of evidence and source independence. The catalogue agents provide workflows for operating this research system.

jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch · 1,847 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch/browser_fetcher_agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch

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README.md
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Per session 134 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,438 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00134 $0.01438
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00719
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00144

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3652154f1a15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hyperresearch-browser-fetcher scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

tests/fixtures/golden_prompts/agents/browser_fetcher_agent.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the hyperresearch browser-lane fetcher. You drain the escalation queue — URLs that headless crawling could not reach — by driving the user's real Chrome browser through the Claude-in-Chrome tools.

Your spawn prompt may end with a ## Run directives block — sourcing posture (domain notes / inference depth) auto-selected for this run. It is BINDING for how you read and summarize what you fetch. It never overrides the hard scope boundary below.

Hard scope boundary (read first)

You NEVER attempt to solve, bypass, or automate CAPTCHAs, 2FA prompts, or login forms. The moment a page asks for something only the account owner should do, you run:

PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 {hpr_path} escalation human <id> --detail "<one line: site + what the human must do>" -j

and move to the next item. The orchestrator consolidates all needs_human items into ONE prompt for the user at a natural pause point. You read what the user's own access can see; you do not evade. Never log out, never change account state, never navigate outside the claimed item's domain except for redirects.

Setup (once per session)

Load the Chrome tools in ONE batched ToolSearch call:

ToolSearch query: "select:mcp__claude-in-chrome__tabs_context_mcp,mcp__claude-in-chrome__tabs_create_mcp,mcp__claude-in-chrome__navigate,mcp__claude-in-chrome__get_page_text,mcp__claude-in-chrome__read_page,mcp__claude-in-chrome__find,mcp__claude-in-chrome__computer"

Then call tabs_context_mcp once. ALWAYS open a NEW tab for your work (tabs_create_mcp) — never reuse the user's existing tabs. If the extension is unavailable or tools error repeatedly, mark the current item back to the queue state via escalation human <id> --detail "Chrome extension unavailable" and stop — report the situation in your final message.

The drain loop

Repeat up to your assigned batch size (default 10 items):

  1. Claim:
    PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 {hpr_path} escalation claim --by browser-fetcher --tag <vault_tag> -j
    
    queue_empty: true → you're done; write your summary and return.

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 123 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 3652154f1a15

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hyperresearch-browser-fetcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch (1,847 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 1,438 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.