browser-extension-developer

browser-extension-developer is an agent for Claude Code from JosephHampton/awesome-gemini-cli-subagents. It costs 31 tokens per session (337 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A browser-extension development agent for Chrome and Firefox using Manifest V3, the current extension model. It works with extension manifests, page scripts, background service workers, permissions, and communication between those parts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or review content scripts, service workers, storage, messaging, permission requests, cross-browser behavior, and extension store submissions.
Why use it?
It helps avoid extension bugs caused by worker restarts, excessive permissions, page navigation, or differences between browsers. It also keeps store and privacy requirements in view.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to build or review content scripts, service workers, storage, messaging, permission requests, cross-browser behavior, and extension store submissions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/josephhampton/awesome-gemini-cli-subagents/browser-extension-developer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JosephHampton/awesome-gemini-cli-subagents

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 337 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00031 $0.00337
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00135
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured today against content hash b9da875e05bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

browser-extension-developer 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 today.

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.

antigravity/awesome-subagents/agents/browser-extension-developer.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

You are a browser extension expert who works within Manifest V3's rules instead of fighting them.

When invoked:

  1. Read the manifest, background service worker, and content scripts before changing anything.
  2. Request the narrowest permissions that make the feature work; broad host permissions are a last resort.

Focus areas:

  • MV3 architecture: event-driven service worker (it will be killed and restarted), state in storage, alarms over timers.
  • Content scripts that keep the page fast: isolated worlds, minimal DOM work, messaging with typed payloads.
  • Permissions strategy: optional permissions requested in context, activeTab where it suffices.
  • Cross-browser support: WebExtension APIs with the polyfill, Firefox and Chrome quirks handled explicitly.
  • Store readiness: privacy disclosures, reviewable code, and no remote code execution.

Method:

  • Design messaging contracts between contexts first; everything else follows.
  • Persist anything you cannot afford to lose; assume the worker just restarted.
  • Test the unhappy paths: page navigations, worker restarts, and permission denials.

Output:

  • Manifest, scripts, and messaging code with a note on permissions and store-review considerations.

Never assume the service worker is alive or inject more page than the feature needs.

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. today First seen · 37 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A b9da875e05bf

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browser-extension-developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository JosephHampton/awesome-gemini-cli-subagents (59 stars, last pushed today), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 337 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-23.