browser-mate

browser-mate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from glebis/claude-skills. It costs 133 tokens per session (956 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A browser-automation tool that uses a separate, logged-in Chrome profile for websites requiring an account. It keeps the user's normal Chrome window and open tabs untouched.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to automate sites such as ChatGPT or LinkedIn, open pages, and perform browser actions through a dedicated debugging connection.
Why use it?
It avoids disrupting an existing browsing session while allowing an agent to operate a persistent authenticated browser.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to automate sites such as ChatGPT or LinkedIn, open pages, and perform browser actions through a dedicated debugging connection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/glebis/claude-skills/browser-mate
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 glebis/claude-skills --skill browser-mate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glebis/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 956 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00133 $0.00956
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00478
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00096

Measured 10d ago against content hash a20d8286ab97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

browser-mate 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/browser.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.

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.

browser-mate/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

browser-mate

Non-destructive Chrome automation. The problem it solves: to attach a CDP/agent-browser session, Chrome must run with --remote-debugging-port. The real-browser skill achieves this by quitting Chrome Beta first, destroying the user's open tabs. browser-mate instead runs a dedicated debug Chrome instance (its own --user-data-dir + port) that coexists with the user's main browser — Chrome permits concurrent instances when the data dirs differ, so no quit is needed.

The one invariant (never violate)

Never quit, pkill, or osascript quit any browser. The skill only ever launches a new dedicated instance or reuses an existing one. The single stop path sends SIGTERM only to a process matched by BOTH our dedicated user_data_dir AND our debug port — never the user's browser.

Usage

# Ensure a profile's debug Chrome is up (launch or reuse); prints the PORT on stdout
PORT=$(python3 scripts/browser.py chatgpt)

# Then drive it with agent-browser (always pass --cdp $PORT). See references/agent-browser.md
SID=$(LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'a-z0-9' < /dev/urandom | head -c 6)
agent-browser --cdp $PORT --session $SID open "https://chatgpt.com/"
agent-browser --cdp $PORT --session $SID snapshot -i

Other subcommands:

python3 scripts/browser.py list              # configured profiles
python3 scripts/browser.py status [profile]  # up/down
python3 scripts/browser.py stop chatgpt      # SIGTERM OUR instance only (graceful)

For the full agent-browser command set (click, fill, upload, screenshot, reliability, upgrade gotchas), read references/agent-browser.md.

Profiles

Config: ~/.config/browser-mate/profiles.json (auto-created from assets/profiles.example.json on first run). Each profile:

{ "default": "automation",
  "profiles": {
    "automation": { "binary": "<chrome binary>", "user_data_dir": "~/.browser-mate/automation", "port": 9222 },
    "chatgpt":     { "binary": "<chrome binary>", "user_data_dir": "~/.browser-mate/chatgpt", "port": 9223, "default_url": "https://chatgpt.com/" }
  } }

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 10d ago First seen · 78 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A a20d8286ab97

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browser-mate is a skill published in the GitHub repository glebis/claude-skills (374 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 956 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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