local-browser

A browser skill that controls the user’s real logged-in Chrome session, including its cookies, saved logins, and extensions. It is intended for websites where an anonymous browser cannot access the needed account or data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check or operate services behind login or single sign-on, such as email, social networks, code hosting, internal tools, shopping sites, or issue trackers.
Why use it?
It lets an agent work inside authenticated services without asking the user to recreate every login session, while keeping actions tied to the user’s existing browser access.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/agentproto/ts/local-browser
Any agent
npx skills add agentproto/ts --skill local-browser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentproto/ts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,103 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 $0.00054 $0.01103
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00551
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00110

Measured 2d ago against content hash f3aa9fc2368b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

local-browser 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 2d 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.

packages/skill-pack-bureau/src/skills/local-browser/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to use

Reach for this skill whenever the task needs to act AS THE USER in a web context. The hallmark is: an unauthenticated browser can't do this because the page requires their cookies/session.

  • "Post this to LinkedIn / Twitter / Reddit" — needs their logged-in session.
  • "Check my Gmail / Slack / Linear for X" — same.
  • "Pull this from behind SSO."
  • "Place this order on Amazon / book this flight" — payment + saved cards + addresses.
  • "Comment on this PR / file this Jira ticket" — authored as them.

If the page is public and unauthenticated, prefer a regular fetch / plain scraping tool — driving a real browser is overkill and the cookies are sensitive.

What it is

The local-browser plugin (@agentproto/plugin-local-browser) is a one-time setup that:

  1. Clones one of the user's existing Chrome profiles into ~/.agentproto/chrome-profile/ (cookies + extensions + logins transfer).
  2. Installs chrome-devtools-mcp into ~/.agentproto/chrome-mcp/.
  3. Registers it in ~/.agentproto/imported-mcps.json so the agentproto daemon proxies all 29 browser tools through /mcp to every tunnel-connected client.

The daemon spawns Chrome on demand against the cloned profile, so the user's daily Chrome keeps running undisturbed.

How to call it

Tools surface under the alias local-browser. From an agentproto MCP-proxy client they're invoked via the daemon's meta-tools:

// list everything available
mcp_imported_tool_list({ alias: "local-browser" })

// drive the browser
mcp_imported_call({
  alias: "local-browser",
  tool: "navigate_page",
  arguments: { url: "https://news.ycombinator.com" }
})

The 29 tools fall into these buckets:

What you want Tool(s)
Open / switch pages new_page, navigate_page, select_page, list_pages, close_page
See the page take_snapshot (AX tree), take_screenshot, list_console_messages
Click / type / fill click, type_text, fill, fill_form, press_key, hover, drag
Wait for something wait_for
Run JS evaluate_script
Network inspection list_network_requests, get_network_request
Perf / Lighthouse performance_start_trace, performance_stop_trace, lighthouse_audit
Files / dialogs / viewport upload_file, handle_dialog, resize_page, emulate

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 2d ago First seen · 116 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A f3aa9fc2368b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

local-browser is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentproto/ts (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,103 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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