browser-use

browser-use is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from marchatton/agent-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (579 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line browser automation tool with persistent sessions, allowing an agent to open pages, inspect available elements, click, enter text, and verify results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for multi-step website tasks, logged-in Chrome sessions, repeated open-and-interact workflows, screenshots, and parallel browser sessions.
Why use it?
Persistent browser sessions reduce the need to rebuild a browser workflow after every action, especially when several steps depend on earlier page state.

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/marchatton/agent-skills/browser-use
Any agent
npx skills add marchatton/agent-skills --skill browser-use
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 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 579 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 $0.00053 $0.00579
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00290
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00058

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4d7d7cf8dc86, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

.agents/skills/00-utilities/browser-use/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

browser-use

Purpose

  • Persistent browser session across commands.
  • Element index workflow: state -> act by index.

When

  • Need quick multi-step browser automation without writing Playwright.
  • Need reuse logged-in Chrome session (real browser mode).
  • Need parallel sessions (--session).

Install

# one-off
uvx "browser-use[cli]" open https://example.com

# permanent
uv pip install "browser-use[cli]"
browser-use install  # downloads Chromium/deps

Core Loop

browser-use open https://example.com
browser-use state                 # list elements w/ indices
browser-use click 5
browser-use input 3 "hello"
browser-use screenshot
browser-use state                 # verify + get next indices
browser-use close

Modes

browser-use --browser chromium open <url>              # default (headless)
browser-use --browser chromium --headed open <url>     # visible window
browser-use --browser real open <url>                  # your Chrome (cookies/login)
browser-use --browser remote open <url>                # cloud browser (API key)

Common Commands

browser-use open <url>
browser-use state [--json]
browser-use click <idx> | dblclick <idx> | rightclick <idx> | hover <idx>
browser-use input <idx> "text" | type "text"
browser-use scroll up|down [n]
browser-use screenshot
browser-use get <what>                                # read page/element info
browser-use back | switch | close-tab
browser-use cookies export <path> | cookies import <path>
browser-use profile list|create|update|delete
browser-use sessions
browser-use server status|logs|stop
browser-use close [--all]

Sessions

browser-use --session work open https://work.example.com
browser-use --session personal open https://personal.example.com
browser-use --session work state
browser-use close --all

Rules (agent-friendly)

  • Always run browser-use state before acting; indices change after navigation.
  • After each navigation/submit: re-run state (don’t reuse stale indices).
  • Prefer --headed while debugging.
  • Cleanup: browser-use close (or close --all) when done.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 4d ago First seen · 79 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 4d7d7cf8dc86

Subscribe to this mod's changes

browser-use is a skill published in the GitHub repository marchatton/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 579 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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