browseract

browseract is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from IvanSkainet/arena-agent. It costs 0 tokens per session (651 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python wrapper for BrowserAct, a command-line tool that controls web pages and extracts content, with options designed to reduce detection by websites.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check the installation, open URLs, inspect page state, click or type, extract page content, and save screenshots or reports.
Why use it?
It provides one cross-platform interface for navigating pages, interacting with elements, extracting Markdown, and taking screenshots.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to check the installation, open URLs, inspect page state, click or type, extract page content, and save screenshots or reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivanskainet/arena-agent/browseract
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 IvanSkainet/arena-agent --skill browseract
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IvanSkainet/arena-agent

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 browseract

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ivanskainet/arena-agent/browseract.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ivanskainet/arena-agent/browseract)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ivanskainet/arena-agent/browseract"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ivanskainet/arena-agent/browseract.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 651 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 $0.00000 $0.00651
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00326
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00065

Measured 8d ago against content hash c462258beb12, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

browseract 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (run.py, run.sh), 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.

- `agentctl http <url>` — raw curl, no JS, cheapest.
skills/browseract/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

browseract

Wrapper around the browser-act CLI for stealth-aware browser automation. Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Install (one-time)

BrowserAct is not bundled with Arena. Install it via uv — a single command that works identically on every OS:

uv tool install browser-act-cli --python 3.12

Then verify:

python skills/browseract/run.py doctor

You should see the CLI version and handshake: ok.

Update

uv tool upgrade browser-act-cli

Subcommands

The Python wrapper (run.py) works on every platform; the historical run.sh remains for callers that expect a bash entrypoint on *nix.

Run via python skills/browseract/run.py <sub> (or the bash wrapper on *nix / from agentctl bact <sub>):

  • doctor — check install + handshake
  • extract <url> — stealth-extract URL as markdown (saved under $ARENA_AGENT_HOME/reports/bact-extract-*.md)
  • shot <url> — stealth screenshot (PNG saved under $ARENA_AGENT_HOME/reports/bact-shot-*.png)
  • open <url> — start/use session, navigate
  • state — show current page state
  • click <index> — click element by index
  • type <text> — type into focused element
  • input <index> <text> — click then type
  • eval <js> — execute JS, return result
  • close — close current session
  • auth {set <KEY> | clear | status} — manage browser-act API key
  • browsers — list configured browsers
  • raw <args...> — pass-through to browser-act

When to use vs existing browser-* commands

  • agentctl http <url> — raw curl, no JS, cheapest.
  • agentctl readability <url> — headless Chromium + Readability.
  • agentctl bact extract <url> — stealth Chromium + anti-bot + markdown.

Boundaries

  • Default = fully local. Bundled Camoufox / stealth Chromium, no upload of cookies or page content.
  • Cloud features (residential IPs, hosted CAPTCHA) require an explicit browser-act auth set <key>. Not enabled by default.
  • Reports saved to $ARENA_AGENT_HOME/reports/bact-* (default ~/arena-bridge/reports/).

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 8d ago First seen · 82 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c462258beb12

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browseract is a skill published in the GitHub repository IvanSkainet/arena-agent (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 651 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.

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