mode

A setting for choosing the browser engine used by web-interact: standard Playwright automation or Patchright assistant mode, which removes automation flags and adds human-like timing.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for switching browser engines, enabling assistant-style interaction, and resetting the managed browser state when changing modes.
Why use it?
It lets developers choose between ordinary testing and browser sessions designed for sites with bot detection or login flows.

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/johnkozaris/web-interact-plugin/mode
Any agent
npx skills add johnkozaris/web-interact-plugin --skill mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnkozaris/web-interact-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 358 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00046 $0.00358
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00036

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9b7da6fda6c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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/mode/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

mode

Switch the browser engine used by web-interact.

Usage

# Show current mode
web-interact mode

# Switch to default (Playwright — standard automation)
web-interact mode default

# Switch to assistant (Patchright — removes automation flags)
web-interact mode assistant

Modes

Mode Engine Automation banner Humanize Best for
default Playwright Visible Off (use --humanize to enable) Your own apps, testing, development
assistant Patchright Hidden Auto-enabled Sites with bot detection, login flows

Assistant mode auto-enables --humanize: natural random delays between clicks (200-600ms), keystrokes (80-200ms per char), field focus (500-1200ms), and form actions. Timing is biased toward the fast end of human ranges. You can also use --humanize with default mode on any command.

What happens on switch

  1. Running daemon and browsers are stopped
  2. ~/.web-interact/ is cleaned (full reset)
  3. Mode is saved to ~/.web-interact/mode
  4. Next command auto-reinstalls the correct engine

The switch takes a few seconds. No manual setup needed after.

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. 2d ago First seen · 46 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 9b7da6fda6c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnkozaris/web-interact-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 358 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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