automation-browser-api-workflows

automation-browser-api-workflows is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davidtoby/agent-skills. It costs 82 tokens per session (438 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general workflow for automating websites, desktop applications, interactive command-line programs, cameras, and tool servers. It covers both browser interactions and replacing fragile screen-based steps with direct APIs when possible.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to automate browser tasks, inspect website network requests, learn private APIs, control macOS interfaces, operate interactive terminals, or call MCP tools.
Why use it?
It makes repeated automation more reliable by identifying the underlying interface and verifying each action’s result.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to automate browser tasks, inspect website network requests, learn private APIs, control macOS interfaces, operate interactive terminals, or call MCP tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davidtoby/agent-skills/automation-browser-api-workflows
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.

Any agent
npx skills add davidtoby/agent-skills --skill automation-browser-api-workflows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidtoby/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 438 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00082 $0.00438
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00175
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00044

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 43d87098c0d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

automation-browser-api-workflows 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

Record traffic, identify auth/session headers, replay with curl, minimize payloads, and document stable endpoints plus failure codes.
skills/curated/automation-browser-api-workflows/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Automation, Browser, and API Workflows

Use this umbrella when the task is to operate an external interface repeatedly or replace brittle UI actions with a more reliable API/tool path.

Core workflow

  1. Identify the interface: browser page, native macOS UI, interactive terminal app, MCP server, RTSP/ONVIF camera, or HTTP API.
  2. Prefer structured APIs/CLIs over visual clicking when available.
  3. If starting from browser automation, capture state, network traffic, and request/response shapes so the workflow can be converted to direct calls.
  4. Keep credentials out of logs and references; store only redacted examples.
  5. Build deterministic probes/scripts for repeated actions and verify outputs after each side effect.

Labeled playbooks

Browser automation

Use snapshots/selectors/click/type flows for one-off navigation. For repeated work, graduate to direct HTTP or a specialized CLI.

API learner

Record traffic, identify auth/session headers, replay with curl, minimize payloads, and document stable endpoints plus failure codes.

macOS UI automation

Use screenshot/element capture tools for apps that lack APIs. Verify focus and target window before sending keystrokes.

tmux and interactive CLI control

For long-lived or REPL-like tools, send keystrokes and scrape panes instead of running non-PTY commands that will hang.

MCP tool calling

List servers/tools, inspect schemas, then call with JSON arguments. Generate typed wrappers only after schemas are stable.

Camera capture

Probe stream URLs and capture short frames/clips with ffmpeg-compatible tools; avoid assuming camera availability.

Reference files

Exact CLI commands and session-specific endpoint notes are stored in references/from-*.md.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 47 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 43d87098c0d5

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automation-browser-api-workflows is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidtoby/agent-skills (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 438 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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