powerskills-browser

A Microsoft Edge browser control tool that connects through the browser’s remote debugging interface. It can inspect pages, run JavaScript, interact with forms, and capture screenshots.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to open and inspect web pages, extract text or HTML, click and fill forms, run page scripts, scroll, manage tabs, and save screenshots.
Why use it?
It removes the need to perform browser checks, scraping, and form actions manually. It also makes page content and HTML available to the coding agent.

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/aloth/powerskills/browser
Any agent
npx skills add aloth/PowerSkills --skill browser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aloth/PowerSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 715 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 $0.00080 $0.00715
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00358
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00072

Measured 2d ago against content hash ac34fcbc7880, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

powerskills-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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (browser.ps1), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/browser/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PowerSkills — Browser

Edge browser automation via CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol).

Requirements

  • Microsoft Edge running with remote debugging:
    Start-Process "msedge" -ArgumentList "--remote-debugging-port=9222"
    
  • Default port configurable in config.json (edge_debug_port)

Actions

.\powerskills.ps1 browser <action> [--params]
Action Params Description
tabs List open browser tabs
navigate --url URL Navigate to URL
screenshot --out-file path.png [--target-id id] Capture page as PNG
content [--target-id id] Get page text content
html [--target-id id] Get full page HTML
evaluate --expression "js" Execute JavaScript expression
click --selector "#btn" Click element by CSS selector
type --selector "#input" --text "hello" Type into element
new-tab --url URL Open new tab
close-tab --target-id id Close tab by ID
scroll --scroll-target top|bottom|selector Scroll page
fill --fields-json '[{"selector":"#a","value":"b"}]' Fill multiple form fields
wait --seconds N Wait N seconds (default: 3)

Examples

# List open tabs
.\powerskills.ps1 browser tabs

# Navigate and screenshot
.\powerskills.ps1 browser navigate --url "https://example.com"
.\powerskills.ps1 browser screenshot --out-file page.png

# Extract page text
.\powerskills.ps1 browser content

# Run JavaScript
.\powerskills.ps1 browser evaluate --expression "document.title"

# Fill a login form
.\powerskills.ps1 browser fill --fields-json '[{"selector":"#user","value":"alex"},{"selector":"#pass","value":"secret","submit":"#login"}]'

Multi-Tab Support

Pass --target-id (from tabs output) to operate on a specific tab. Without it, actions target the first page.

Fill Fields Format

JSON array of objects with selector, value, and optional submit:

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 81 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A ac34fcbc7880

Subscribe to this mod's changes

powerskills-browser is a skill published in the GitHub repository aloth/PowerSkills (35 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 715 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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