codex-browser

Instructions for controlling Chrome or Edge through a browser connection from the ChatGPT desktop app. They cover tabs, page navigation, web-page content, typing, file uploads, network inspection, and browser diagnostics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Opening and inspecting pages, filling forms, uploading files, handling dialogs, examining page structure, and diagnosing browser or network behaviour.
Why use it?
They let a coding agent interact with websites in a real browser when command-line tools or direct page requests are not enough.

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/deliciousbuding/codex-browser-bridge/codex-browser
Any agent
npx skills add DeliciousBuding/codex-browser-bridge --skill codex-browser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DeliciousBuding/codex-browser-bridge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,894 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00050 $0.02894
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01447
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00579
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00289

Measured 3d ago against content hash d2f29595f5b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to codex-browser — 39 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/codex-browser/SKILL.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex Browser Bridge

You are an agent controlling a real Chrome or Edge browser through the codex-browser MCP server. This skill covers all 52 tools and their effective use.

Quick Check

Call codex_doctor first. If healthy is true, browser pipes are ready. If install.mcp_spawn_ready is false, ask the user to update the MCP config with install.suggested_mcp_config; this is separate from browser pipe health.

Tool Groups

Tabs (5 tools)

Tool What it does
codex_list_tabs Tabs owned by this session
codex_create_tab New blank tab (navigate after)
codex_close_tab Close a tab
codex_user_tabs All browser tabs, including unclaimed
codex_claim_tab Take ownership of an existing tab

Navigation (8 tools)

Tool What it does
codex_navigate Go to URL. Only http:// and https:// URLs are accepted.
codex_reload Reload current page
codex_navigate_back Back
codex_navigate_forward Forward
codex_wait_for_load Poll document.readyState until complete or timeout (default 10s)
codex_nav_and_wait Navigate and wait for load in one call. Prefer this over navigate + wait_for_load.
codex_wait_for_element Poll a CSS selector until it matches. Use on SPAs where wait_for_load returns immediately but content renders async.
codex_wait_for_url Poll until location.href contains a substring (SPA route change).

DOM & Accessibility (5 tools)

Tool What it does
codex_dom_snapshot Full AX tree with node IDs for codex_dom_click
codex_dom_get_visible Human-readable DOM (no node IDs)
codex_dom_click Click by AX node ID from snapshot
codex_find_element Search by ARIA role and/or name. Returns node IDs.
codex_click_element Click a result from codex_find_element. Uses CDP mouse events — no JS injection.

Page inspection (7 tools)

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 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. 3d ago First seen · 235 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A d2f29595f5b3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codex-browser is a skill published in the GitHub repository DeliciousBuding/codex-browser-bridge (15 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,894 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to codex-browser, differing in 39 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

owb

Open Web Bridge (OWB) — drive the user's own real browser with the owb command. Read pages behind their existing logins, gather and cross-check information, fill forms, walk multi-step flows, debug their site, audit responsive/accessibility behavior, and capture or reverse-engineer network traffic. Use this whenever…

woniu9524/open-web-bridge · 143 tokens

nekoro-browser

浏览器自动化——打开网页、搜索、点击、截图、执行 JS、填表、上传文件、处理对话框。通过 Chrome 扩展的 chrome.debugger API 操控用户日常浏览器,保留登录态,不开调试端口。触发词:"浏览器"、"打开网页"、"搜索"、"截图"、"点击"、"填表"、"上传文件"、"自动化操作"。.

zeshuochen/nekoro-browser · 102 tokens

codex-control-chrome-mcp

Use Codex Control Chrome MCP to control the user's normal Chrome profile through the Codex Chrome extension. Use when a task needs existing Chrome tabs, cookies, logged-in sessions, installed extensions, CDP commands, page inspection, navigation, screenshots, network/console events, or browser automation from an MCP…

iola1999/codex-control-chrome-mcp · 79 tokens

browser-automation

Use browser automation to inspect or interact with websites, test rendered interfaces, capture screenshots, and diagnose console or network behavior.

mirsella/opencode-browser-mcp · 28 tokens

control-chrome-bridge

Drive the user's real Chrome browser — their own profile, tabs, cookies and logged-in sessions — through the chrome-bridge MCP server. Use for tasks that need existing browser state: reading a page behind a login, filling a form on a site the user is signed into, testing a local app in a real browser, or inspecting…

ShalomObongo/chrome-bridge-mcp · 114 tokens

setup

Guide users through Chrome extension setup for browser control. Use when user asks about setup, installing the extension, connecting Chrome, or when browsercontrol tools return "No browser connected".

gettalon/talon-plugins · 35 tokens