ghostex-browser-use

ghostex-browser-use is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from maddada/Ghostex. It costs 90 tokens per session (1,542 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for inspecting and automating pages in Chrome, Chromium, Edge, or supported Electron apps through typed browser tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to navigate pages, inspect their content, click controls, enter text, and perform pointer actions in supported browsers.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to identify the correct browser window and verify page changes during automation.

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/maddada/ghostex/ghostex-browser-use
Any agent
npx skills add maddada/Ghostex --skill ghostex-browser-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maddada/Ghostex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,542 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 $0.00090 $0.01542
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00771
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00154

Measured 4d ago against content hash 925b0b3f9e65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ghostex-browser-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 4d 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/ghostex-browser-use/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ghostex-browser-use

Use Trycua's typed browser workflow for supported browser page content. Keep the browser bound to an exact native window and verify every mutation from a fresh semantic snapshot.

If $cua-driver is available, load it and read its BROWSER.md before acting; that versioned skill is the source of truth for the installed driver's schemas, authorization rules, and platform support.

Use the cua-driver CLI, not MCP. Do not configure, register, or invoke a Trycua MCP server for this workflow.

Route the task

  • Use this skill for page content in supported Chrome, Chromium, Edge, and exactly correlated Electron surfaces.
  • Use $ghostex-embedded-browser-use for Ghostex's built-in CEF browser panes.
  • Use $ghostex-computer-use for browser chrome, native prompts and dialogs, Safari, Firefox, or a surface that Trycua cannot bind exactly.
  • Prefer an application API, connector, or CLI when the requested result does not require browser UI interaction.

Check readiness

Run read-only checks before starting:

which cua-driver
cua-driver status
cua-driver check_permissions '{"prompt":false}'
cua-driver list-tools

If the daemon is not running on macOS, start the signed app in the background:

open -n -g -a CuaDriver --args serve

Use CLI calls in the form cua-driver <tool> '<JSON>'.

Windows and WSL

On Windows, Trycua installs on the Windows side. A Ghostex agent session runs inside the WSL distribution, where there is no Linux cua-driver binary, so which cua-driver failing there does not mean Trycua is missing. Call it across the interop boundary through powershell.exe instead:

powershell.exe -NoProfile -Command "cua-driver status"
powershell.exe -NoProfile -Command "cua-driver list-tools"
powershell.exe -NoProfile -Command "cua-driver start_session '{\"session\":\"browser-run-1\",\"capture_scope\":\"window\"}'"

The general form is powershell.exe -NoProfile -Command "cua-driver <tool> '<JSON>'". Inside a bash double-quoted string, escape the JSON's own double quotes as \"; PowerShell then hands the single-quoted JSON to Trycua as one argument.

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. 4d ago First seen · 161 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 925b0b3f9e65

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ghostex-browser-use is a skill published in the GitHub repository maddada/Ghostex (753 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,542 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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