agent-browser

agent-browser is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from marchatton/agent-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,497 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of agent-browser-davekilleen-dex, MIT.

Instructions for using Vercel's agent-browser command-line tool to control web pages through a browser. It uses accessibility snapshots to find page elements and references such as buttons or fields.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to open sites, inspect interactive elements, click, fill forms, navigate, take screenshots, or collect page data.
Why use it?
It gives a repeatable way to navigate pages and interact with elements when automating browser tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to open sites, inspect interactive elements, click, fill forms, navigate, take screenshots, or collect page data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marchatton/agent-skills/agent-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 marchatton/agent-skills --skill agent-browser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marchatton/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,497 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00077 $0.01497
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00599
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00150

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fd63d41d4a9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to agent-browser-davekilleen-dex — 226 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/00-utilities/agent-browser/SKILL.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

agent-browser: CLI Browser Automation

Vercel's headless browser automation CLI designed for AI agents. Uses ref-based selection (@e1, @e2) from accessibility snapshots.

Setup Check

# Check installation
command -v agent-browser >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "Installed" || echo "NOT INSTALLED - run: npm install -g agent-browser && agent-browser install"

Install if needed

npm install -g agent-browser
agent-browser install  # Downloads Chromium

Core Workflow

The snapshot + ref pattern is optimal for LLMs:

  1. Navigate to URL
  2. Snapshot to get interactive elements with refs
  3. Interact using refs (@e1, @e2, etc.)
  4. Re-snapshot after navigation or DOM changes
# Step 1: Open URL
agent-browser open https://example.com

# Step 2: Get interactive elements with refs
agent-browser snapshot -i --json

# Step 3: Interact using refs
agent-browser click @e1
agent-browser fill @e2 "search query"

# Step 4: Re-snapshot after changes
agent-browser snapshot -i

Key Commands

Navigation

agent-browser open <url>       # Navigate to URL
agent-browser back             # Go back
agent-browser forward          # Go forward
agent-browser reload           # Reload page
agent-browser close            # Close browser

Snapshots (Essential for AI)

agent-browser snapshot              # Full accessibility tree
agent-browser snapshot -i           # Interactive elements only (recommended)
agent-browser snapshot -i --json    # JSON output for parsing
agent-browser snapshot -c           # Compact (remove empty elements)
agent-browser snapshot -d 3         # Limit depth

Interactions

agent-browser click @e1                    # Click element
agent-browser dblclick @e1                 # Double-click
agent-browser fill @e1 "text"              # Clear and fill input
agent-browser type @e1 "text"              # Type without clearing
agent-browser press Enter                  # Press key
agent-browser hover @e1                    # Hover element
agent-browser check @e1                    # Check checkbox
agent-browser uncheck @e1                  # Uncheck checkbox
agent-browser select @e1 "option"          # Select dropdown option
agent-browser scroll down 500              # Scroll (up/down/left/right)
agent-browser scrollintoview @e1           # Scroll element into view

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 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. 1mo ago First seen · 224 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A fd63d41d4a9d

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agent-browser is a skill published in the GitHub repository marchatton/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,497 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to agent-browser-davekilleen-dex, differing in 226 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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