agent-browser

agent-browser is a skill for Claude Code from musingfox/cc-plugins. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,269 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for controlling a headless web browser. It lets an agent open pages, inspect elements, click, fill forms, take screenshots, and read page content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to browse websites, submit forms, inspect page structure, scrape or read content, and capture screenshots.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to work with web pages without relying on fragile page selectors. The agent can identify elements by references from the page's accessibility tree.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-browser plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to browse websites, submit forms, inspect page structure, scrape or read content, and capture screenshots.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-browser, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,269 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 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 $0.00057 $0.01269
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00508
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00127

Measured 10d ago against content hash 024ecee4f23f, 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 10d 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.

agent-browser/skills/agent-browser/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

agent-browser

Overview

agent-browser is a CLI that gives AI agents direct control over headless browsers. It uses a ref-based interaction model: every interactive element receives a unique reference identifier (@e1, @e2, etc.) derived from the accessibility tree. This enables deterministic, token-efficient browser automation without fragile CSS selectors.

Prerequisites

Ensure agent-browser is installed and the browser binary is available:

# Check installation
agent-browser --version

# Install globally
npm install -g agent-browser
agent-browser install

# On Linux, include system dependencies
agent-browser install --with-deps

Core Workflow: The Ref Cycle

Every browser interaction follows a strict cycle:

open URL → snapshot → read refs → interact → re-snapshot → repeat
  1. Navigate to the target page with open
  2. Snapshot to obtain the accessibility tree with refs
  3. Read the snapshot output — identify target elements by their refs
  4. Interact with elements using their refs (click @e1, fill @e2 "text")
  5. Re-snapshot when the page changes (see Re-snapshot Rules)

Snapshot Modes

The snapshot command is the primary inspection tool. Choose the right mode:

  • snapshot -i — Interactive elements only (buttons, inputs, links). Use as default.
  • snapshot -i -C (uppercase C) — Include cursor-interactive elements (divs with onclick). Use when expected elements are missing from -i. Note: -C (cursor-interactive) is distinct from -c (compact).
  • snapshot -c — Compact output. Reduces token usage on large pages.
  • snapshot -d N — Limit tree depth to N levels. Use for deeply nested DOMs.
  • snapshot -s "selector" — Scope to a CSS selector. Focus on a specific page section.

Combine flags freely: agent-browser snapshot -i -c -d 3 for compact, shallow, interactive-only output.

Element Interaction Patterns

Text Input

  • fill @eN "text" — Clears existing content, then types. Use for replacing field values.
  • type @eN "text" — Appends without clearing. Use for adding to existing content.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 10d ago Changed · -23 lines · +1 tokens per session 024ecee4f23f
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 8ebe94207a50
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 147 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A ee5f17106fc9

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agent-browser is a skill published in the GitHub repository musingfox/cc-plugins (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,269 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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