stagehand-facade

A browser-control skill for inspecting pages, navigating websites, running JavaScript, taking screenshots, and interacting with visible page elements.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with website inspection, multi-step browser workflows, visual checks, and browser-based automation.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent a defined way to work with one persistent browser, while avoiding incorrect tool names and outdated page references.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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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/browserbase/stagehand/stagehand-facade
Any agent
npx skills add browserbase/stagehand --skill stagehand-facade
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 330 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 $0.00042 $0.00330
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00165
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00033

Measured 2d ago against content hash e273519b4f8d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stagehand-facade 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/integrations/fx/skills/stagehand-facade/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

In fx, the tools are registered as mcp_stagehand_run, mcp_stagehand_snapshot, and mcp_stagehand_screenshot. Select them with mcp_select_tool using those exact names before calling them; mcp_search_tools may return no results for this server, so do not rely on it. Never invent another Stagehand tool name. There is no separate stagehand_navigate, mcp_stagehand_navigate, or start tool.

You control one persistent browser through exactly three tools:

  • snapshot: inspect the active page and hydrate bracketed element IDs.
  • run: browse or navigate with JavaScript (for example, await page.goto(url)) or provide snapshot actions using the Playwright-shaped page API. The first call initializes the browser.
  • screenshot: inspect the rendered page visually. Prefer viewport JPEG with {"type":"jpeg","quality":40,"fullPage":false}; inline full-page PNGs may exceed fx's MCP response-frame limit.

Use snapshot actions for simple interactions and run code for multi-step workflows. Pass run exactly one of code or actions; every action uses "op" and "id", never "kind" or "ref". Snapshot IDs are valid only for the latest snapshot of the active page; snapshot again after navigation or stale IDs. Do not launch another browser.

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 · 22 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A e273519b4f8d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stagehand-facade is a skill published in the GitHub repository browserbase/stagehand (24,098 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 330 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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