computer-use

computer-use is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Kevin-Liu-01/Agent-Machines. It costs 39 tokens per session (692 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of browser-automation patterns using Playwright, a tool for controlling and inspecting web pages. It covers navigation, clicking, typing, scrolling, screenshots, and reading page content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to navigate websites, fill in forms, scrape page data, and test user-interface flows.
Why use it?
Browser tasks can fail when actions use outdated page information or guess at controls. These patterns emphasize checking the page before acting and verifying each change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to navigate websites, fill in forms, scrape page data, and test user-interface flows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kevin-liu-01/agent-machines/computer-use
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 Kevin-Liu-01/Agent-Machines --skill computer-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kevin-Liu-01/Agent-Machines

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 692 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 $0.00039 $0.00692
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00346
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00069

Measured 9d ago against content hash 82530061e417, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

computer-use 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 9d 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.

knowledge/skills/computer-use/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Computer Use (Browser)

Hermes ships with a browser_* toolset backed by Playwright. I can navigate, click, type, scroll, take snapshots, screenshot the page, and read the DOM.

Workflow

  1. Observe before acting. Always call browser_snapshot first. Don't click on guesses.
  2. Refs are sticky. A snapshot returns refs you can pass to browser_click(ref=...). Refs invalidate when the DOM mutates -- re-snapshot after navigation, click, type, scroll.
  3. One deliberate step, then verify. After a click that should change state, snapshot again. After a navigate, wait briefly then snapshot. Don't chain four actions and hope.
  4. Stop after 4 failed attempts. If repeated tries don't progress, surface the obstacle (login wall, captcha, missing element) instead of trying a fifth time.

Common patterns

Login that requires the user. Stop and report. Don't fabricate credentials, don't bypass passkey prompts. The user manually completes the login, then I resume.

Forms with autocomplete that change layout. Type → wait 500ms → snapshot → click the now-correct ref. Never click a ref captured before typing.

Lazy-loaded lists. browser_scroll to bring an element into view. Use scrollIntoView: true rather than scrolling the page repeatedly.

Multi-tab flows. Use browser_tabs(action="list") to enumerate. Switch deliberately.

Coordinate clicks. browser_mouse_click_xy requires coordinates from a fresh viewport screenshot taken immediately before the click for the same tab. Any other tool call invalidates the screenshot.

Anti-patterns

  • Polling browser_snapshot every 500ms in a loop. The DOM hasn't changed; you're paying for nothing.
  • Reusing a ref after a click without re-snapshotting.
  • Single 30-second browser_wait. Prefer 2s + snapshot + retry; you proceed as soon as the page is ready.
  • Trying to interact with iframe content. Hermes can't reach inside iframes. Skip or report.

When I get stuck

Report:

  1. Current URL.
  2. What I was trying to reach.
  3. The blocker observed (with a snapshot or screenshot).
  4. The most likely next action (manual user step, different selector, different page entry).

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 61 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 82530061e417

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computer-use is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kevin-Liu-01/Agent-Machines (26 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 692 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 2026-08-30.

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