auto-browse

A guided workflow for authorized browser automation and web data collection. It helps turn a concrete browsing task into a reviewed, reusable process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or run tasks such as downloading invoices, review an existing private workflow, or create a shareable plan for a reusable web-data exporter.
Why use it?
Browser tasks can involve private accounts, downloads, and sensitive data, so the workflow requires the target, authorization, permitted actions, and safety rules before proceeding.

Command for Codex

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 commands/marcusquinn/aidevops/auto-browse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcusquinn/aidevops

Made for: Codex.

Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 457 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 $0.00018 $0.00457
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00229
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00046

Measured yesterday against content hash aa72f2b48c37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auto-browse 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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/scripts/commands/auto-browse.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Run the auto-browse workflow for authorized browser operations and web data mining.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Read .agents/workflows/auto-browse.md, then execute that workflow with the supplied arguments.

Invocation Patterns

Pattern Example Behaviour
Concrete task /auto-browse "download invoices from the billing portal" Infer scope, ask only materially blocking questions, then plan or run
Bare intake /auto-browse Start a guided intake conversation before browsing or writing private state
Private workflow review /auto-browse --review ~/.aidevops/.agent-workspace/auto-browse/<id> Inspect an existing private run folder and recommend next action
Shareable plan /auto-browse --plan "create a reusable directory lead exporter" Produce a sanitized todo/auto-browse/... plan, not a private account workflow

Non-negotiables

  • Do not browse, log in, create profiles, or touch private browser state until the workflow has target, authorization, allowed actions, and safety policy.
  • Store account/site/client-specific workflows, cookies, storage state, downloads, and generated private agents under private aidevops user data, not repo todo/.
  • Store only sanitized generalized briefs and implementation plans in todo/.
  • Require explicit final confirmation for account creation, posting/messaging, payments/checkouts, destructive/admin actions, anti-detect/proxy/VPN use, and expanded personal/private data extraction.
  • .agents/workflows/auto-browse.md — canonical workflow
  • .agents/tools/browser/auto-browse.md — tool-routing and subagent design
  • .agents/tools/browser/browser-automation.md — browser tool selection matrix
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. yesterday First seen · 45 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A aa72f2b48c37

Subscribe to this mod's changes

auto-browse is a command published in the GitHub repository marcusquinn/aidevops (391 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 457 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.