browser-mode

browser-mode is a skill for Claude Code from johnkozaris/web-interact-plugin. It costs 38 tokens per session (330 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setting for choosing how the web-interact tool connects to a browser: automatically, to an existing Chrome or Edge session, or to an isolated managed browser.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with browser automation, using existing cookies and extensions, or running clean tests in a separate persistent browser profile.
Why use it?
It removes the need to repeatedly choose how browser sessions should start and lets you keep logins and browser data when needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the web-interact plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps with browser automation, using existing cookies and extensions, or running clean tests in a separate persistent browser profile.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/johnkozaris/web-interact-plugin/browser-mode
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 johnkozaris/web-interact-plugin --skill browser-mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnkozaris/web-interact-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install web-interact, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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agentmods 80×15 button for browser-mode

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 38 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. 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 $0.00038 $0.00330
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00132
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00033

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c566af477e35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

browser-mode 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 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.

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.

skills/browser-mode/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

browser-mode

Choose how web-interact connects to the browser.

Usage

# Show current browser mode
web-interact browser-mode

# Let the CLI decide (default)
web-interact browser-mode auto

# Connect to your running Chrome/Edge
web-interact browser-mode real

# Use a managed browser with persistent profile
web-interact browser-mode sandbox

Modes

Mode What it does Best for
auto CLI decides — launches managed browser with system Chrome/Edge General use (default)
real Connects to your already-running browser Using existing logins, cookies, extensions
sandbox Launches isolated managed browser, profile saved in ~/.web-interact/ Clean automation, testing

Notes

  • real mode requires Chrome/Edge to be running with remote debugging enabled, or discoverable via DevToolsActivePort.
  • sandbox profile persists across sessions in ~/.web-interact/browsers/ — cookies and localStorage survive restarts.
  • Setting is saved to ~/.web-interact/browser-mode and persists until changed.
  • Per-command override: --own-browser or --connect [URL] flags override the saved mode.
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 · 43 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A c566af477e35

Subscribe to this mod's changes

browser-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnkozaris/web-interact-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 330 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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