nodriver-browser

nodriver-browser is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from appautomaton/webmaton. It costs 106 tokens per session (4,011 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A persistent Chrome or Chromium browser automation tool that keeps the same browser session available between actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to interact with dynamic or protected websites, complete multi-step browser tasks, preserve authorized sessions, inspect page content, and capture screenshots.
Why use it?
It handles pages that need JavaScript, login sessions, clicking, typing, scrolling, or visual checking and that ordinary web requests cannot complete.

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/appautomaton/webmaton/nodriver-browser
Any agent
npx skills add appautomaton/webmaton --skill nodriver-browser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/appautomaton/webmaton

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for nodriver-browser

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/appautomaton/webmaton/nodriver-browser.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/appautomaton/webmaton/nodriver-browser)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/appautomaton/webmaton/nodriver-browser"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/appautomaton/webmaton/nodriver-browser.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,011 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00106 $0.04011
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.02005
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00802
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00401

Measured 5d ago against content hash 51a26d5b6f06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nodriver-browser scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 24 executable files (lib/runner.py, lib/snapshot.py, scripts/back.py, …), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **A JSON API endpoint** → use `curl` via Bash, you don't need a browser at all
skills/nodriver-browser/SKILL.md · 229 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

nodriver-browser

A persistent Chrome/Chromium browser that stays alive between Claude's turns. Built on nodriver (CDP-direct, no Selenium, no navigator.webdriver). Every script attaches to the same long-running browser, performs one action, exits — the browser and its tab keep going.

Core invariant: ONE daemon, ONE persistent tab (tabs[0]). Every script reports tabs_open in its output. If you ever see tabs_open > 1, treat it as a real signal that something opened a stray tab — read the warning and act on it.

When to use this skill

  • The page needs JavaScript to render (SPA, infinite scroll, lazy load)
  • WebFetch is blocked by anti-bot systems (Cloudflare, DataDome, Imperva, hCaptcha)
  • The task requires interaction: clicking buttons, filling forms, multi-step flows, dropdown selection
  • You need session state across multiple actions (logged-in scraping, multi-page checkout, OAuth flows)
  • You need visual proof of a page (screenshot) for debugging or reporting

When NOT to use this skill

  • Static HTML that loads fully on first GET → use WebFetch
  • One-shot search query → use WebSearch (or grok-search skill if it exists)
  • A JSON API endpoint → use curl via Bash, you don't need a browser at all
  • A single quick scrape with no interactivity → consider a one-off Python script, not this skill

This skill spawns a Chromium process (~150-200 MB RAM) that stays alive until you explicitly stop it. Worth it for interactive flows; overkill for one URL.

Quick start

Scripts live in scripts/ next to this SKILL.md — resolve paths relative to the skill root.

Run them directly as executables; the #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script shebang invokes uv and reads the PEP 723 metadata for you. Do not run these scripts with python, python3, or python -m; that bypasses the shebang, dependency metadata, and Python version pin. If executable dispatch is unavailable, use uv run --script scripts/nav.py ....

Read the full file on GitHub · 229 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 · 229 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 51a26d5b6f06

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nodriver-browser is a skill published in the GitHub repository appautomaton/webmaton (19 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 4,011 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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