dev-browser

dev-browser is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jxoesneon/Ciel. It costs 40 tokens per session (651 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A browser automation tool for navigating websites, filling forms, taking screenshots, extracting page data, and testing web applications. It keeps page state between steps in a session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test user flows, inspect pages, scrape structured information, complete forms, and capture visual evidence.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive manual browser work and makes web checks and data collection repeatable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to test user flows, inspect pages, scrape structured information, complete forms, and capture visual evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jxoesneon/ciel/dev-browser
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 jxoesneon/Ciel --skill dev-browser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jxoesneon/Ciel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 40 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 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 $0.00040 $0.00651
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00260
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00065

Measured 26d ago against content hash 82eda512cd38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev-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 26d 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/dev-browser/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CIEL ADAPTATION: Dev Browser (Browser Automation Primitive)

This skill provides a CLI-driven browser automation primitive with persistent page state. It is a catalytic primitive — other skills compose on top of it for e2e testing, scraping, and visual verification. Ciel's autonomy ladder gates network access (logged), secrets (user escalation for form-fill credentials), and fs writes outside project (user escalation).

Installation

npm install -g dev-browser
dev-browser install

Capabilities

  • Persistent page state: Navigation context survives across script invocations within a session.
  • Sandboxed JavaScript scripts: Execute browser control logic via JS scripts, not interactive sessions.
  • Navigation: go to [url], click elements, wait for selectors.
  • Form interaction: Fill fields, submit forms, handle auth flows.
  • Screenshot capture: Visual snapshots for verification and debugging.
  • Data extraction: Scrape page content, extract structured data from DOM.
  • Web app testing: Automated interaction flows for QA and e2e validation.

Usage Patterns

  • Navigate: Open a URL and wait for load — dev-browser maintains page state between calls.
  • Interact: Click buttons, fill forms, submit — chain actions in a single script for atomicity.
  • Capture: Take screenshots at key states for visual evidence in verification pipelines.
  • Extract: Pull structured data from pages — pair with regex-vs-llm-structured-text for parsing.
  • Test: Automate click-through flows for web app validation — pair with e2e-testing for assertions.

Ciel Autonomy Gates

  • Network access: Logged by default; no escalation needed for public URLs.
  • Form-fill credentials: User escalation required — never auto-fill passwords or API keys without explicit user approval.
  • Filesystem writes outside project: User escalation required — screenshots and scraped data must land in project-scoped paths unless user approves otherwise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 26d ago Changed · -9 lines 82eda512cd38
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 66 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A a360660d60e7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dev-browser is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxoesneon/Ciel (1 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 651 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 2026-09-03.

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