capture-auth

capture-auth is a skill for Claude Code from neonwatty/playwright-profiles. It costs 133 tokens per session (2,449 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for saving reusable signed-in browser sessions for custom web apps, such as staging sites or internal tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Saving login sessions for apps and setting up reusable profiles, including administrator or planner accounts.
Why use it?
It avoids repeating the login process when testing the same app with a browser automation tool.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the playwright-profiles plugin — 3 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Saving login sessions for apps and setting up reusable profiles, including administrator…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neonwatty/playwright-profiles/capture-auth
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 neonwatty/playwright-profiles --skill capture-auth
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neonwatty/playwright-profiles

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install playwright-profiles, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 2 commands.

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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,449 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 $0.00133 $0.02449
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.01224
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00490
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00245

Measured 6d ago against content hash 6d8eed207381, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

capture-auth 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 6d 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/capture-auth/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Capture Web App Authentication

Save reusable authenticated browser sessions for custom web apps (the user's own projects, client apps, staging environments, etc.) using the persistent Chrome profile at ~/.playwright-cli/.

How This Differs from auth-browse

  • auth-browse: Preconfigured external services (Cloudflare, Sentry, Vercel, etc.) with known waitFor patterns
  • capture-auth: The user's own apps — custom URLs where the post-login URL needs to be discovered

Both use the same ~/.playwright-cli/sign-in.mjs script and shared Chrome profile.

Workflow

Step 1: Gather app details

Ask the user for:

  1. A short name for the app (e.g., deckchecker, seatify-staging, client-portal). Used as the identifier for future sign-ins.
  2. The login URL (e.g., https://deckchecker.app/login, https://staging.seatify.app/login).
  3. The post-login URL pattern (optional). This is a URL substring that appears after successful sign-in — used for auto-detect. Examples:
    • /dashboard — most common
    • /home
    • /events
    • The app's domain alone if login redirects to a different domain

If the user does not know the post-login URL, suggest common patterns or tell them to skip it (the script will use manual Enter instead).

Step 2: Register the site

Run via Bash:

node ~/.playwright-cli/sign-in.mjs add <name> <login-url> <wait-for-pattern>

Example:

node ~/.playwright-cli/sign-in.mjs add deckchecker https://deckchecker.app/login /dashboard

If no waitFor was provided, omit the third argument — the script defaults to the hostname.

Step 3: Sign in

Tell the user to run the sign-in command in a separate terminal:

node ~/.playwright-cli/sign-in.mjs login <name>

The script defaults to Playwright's built-in Chromium, which works while Chrome is open. Custom apps rarely have bot detection, so this is almost always fine. If the user's app uses Google OAuth for login and it gets blocked, retry with --tier chrome (Chrome must be closed first):

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 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. 6d ago First seen · 239 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 6d8eed207381

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capture-auth is a skill published in the GitHub repository neonwatty/playwright-profiles (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 2,449 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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