ck:chrome-devtools

A browser automation guide built around Puppeteer, a tool for controlling web browsers with code. It also covers screenshots, page speed checks, network activity, web scraping, form filling, JavaScript debugging, and accessibility inspection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to take screenshots, discover page elements, automate forms, collect website data, inspect errors and network requests, measure performance, and check the page's accessibility structure.
Why use it?
It helps inspect and test websites through a repeatable browser session instead of doing the same checks manually.

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/manhvann/codexkit/chrome-devtools
Any agent
npx skills add manhvann/codexkit --skill chrome-devtools
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manhvann/codexkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,622 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00038 $0.05622
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.02811
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00562

Measured 2d ago against content hash b7b62d89abca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ck:chrome-devtools scanned grade B with 2 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 22 executable files (scripts/__tests__/error-handling.test.js, scripts/__tests__/selector.test.js, scripts/aria-snapshot.js, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

cat > $SKILL_DIR/.codex/chrome-devtools/tmp/login-test.js << 'EOF'

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

# Netscape format (from curl/wget):
.agents/skills/chrome-devtools/SKILL.md · 626 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 626 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chrome DevTools Agent Skill

Browser automation via Puppeteer scripts with persistent sessions. All scripts output JSON.

Skill Location

Skills can exist in project-scope or user-scope. Priority: project-scope > user-scope.

# Detect skill location (no cd needed - scripts use __dirname for paths)
SKILL_DIR=""
if [ -d ".agents/skills/chrome-devtools/scripts" ]; then
  SKILL_DIR=".agents/skills/chrome-devtools/scripts"
elif [ -d "$HOME/.codex/skills/chrome-devtools/scripts" ]; then
  SKILL_DIR="$HOME/.codex/skills/chrome-devtools/scripts"
fi
# Run scripts with full path: node "$SKILL_DIR/script.js" --args

Choosing Your Approach

Scenario Approach
Source-available sites Read source code first, write selectors directly
Unknown layouts Use aria-snapshot.js for semantic discovery
Visual inspection Take screenshots to verify rendering
Debug issues Collect console logs, analyze with session storage
Accessibility audit Use ARIA snapshot for semantic structure analysis

Automation Browsing Running Mode

Browser visibility is resolved automatically by resolveHeadless() in lib/browser.js:

Environment Default Why
macOS / Windows Headed (visible) Better debugging, OAuth login support
Linux / WSL Headless Servers typically have no display
CI (CI, GITHUB_ACTIONS, GITLAB_CI, JENKINS_URL env vars) Headless No display available

Override with --headless true or --headless false on any script.

  • Run multiple scripts/sessions in parallel to simulate real user interactions.
  • Run multiple scripts/sessions in parallel to simulate different device types (mobile, tablet, desktop).

ARIA Snapshot (Element Discovery)

When page structure is unknown, use aria-snapshot.js to get a YAML-formatted accessibility tree with semantic roles, accessible names, states, and stable element references.

Read the full file on GitHub · 626 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. 2d ago First seen · 626 lines · 38 tokens per session scan B b7b62d89abca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ck:chrome-devtools is a skill published in the GitHub repository manhvann/codexkit (88 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 5,622 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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