chrome-devtools-cli

A command-line tool for controlling and inspecting a web browser through Chrome DevTools, Chrome’s built-in developer tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps automate browser testing and tasks such as viewing a page snapshot, finding elements, clicking, and filling fields.
Why use it?
It lets shell scripts and coding agents inspect pages and perform browser actions from the terminal, while keeping browser state between commands.

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/opencodeengineer/chrome-devtools-mcp/chrome-devtools-cli
Any agent
npx skills add OpenCodeEngineer/chrome-devtools-mcp --skill chrome-devtools-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenCodeEngineer/chrome-devtools-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,901 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 $0.00031 $0.01901
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00950
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00380
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00190

Measured yesterday against content hash 7382e3581eeb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chrome-devtools-cli 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 yesterday.

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

Copies of this mod

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/chrome-devtools-cli/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The chrome-devtools-mcp CLI lets you interact with the browser from your terminal.

Setup

Note: If this is your very first time using the CLI, see references/installation.md for setup. Installation is a one-time prerequisite and is not part of the regular AI workflow.

AI Workflow

  1. Execute: Run tools directly (e.g., chrome-devtools list_pages). The background server starts implicitly; do not run start/status/stop before each use.
  2. Inspect: Use take_snapshot to get an element <uid>.
  3. Act: Use click, fill, etc. State persists across commands.

Snapshot example:

uid=1_0 RootWebArea "Example Domain" url="https://example.com/"
  uid=1_1 heading "Example Domain" level="1"

Command Usage

chrome-devtools <tool> [arguments] [flags]

Use --help on any command. Output defaults to Markdown, use --output-format=json for JSON.

Input Automation ( from snapshot)

chrome-devtools take_snapshot --help # Help message for commands, works for any command.
chrome-devtools take_snapshot # Take a text snapshot of the page to get UIDs for elements
chrome-devtools click "id" # Clicks on the provided element
chrome-devtools click "id" --dblClick true --includeSnapshot true # Double clicks and returns a snapshot
chrome-devtools drag "src" "dst" # Drag an element onto another element
chrome-devtools drag "src" "dst" --includeSnapshot true # Drag an element and return a snapshot
chrome-devtools fill "id" "text" # Type text into an input or select an option
chrome-devtools fill "id" "text" --includeSnapshot true # Fill an element and return a snapshot
chrome-devtools handle_dialog accept # Handle a browser dialog
chrome-devtools handle_dialog dismiss --promptText "hi" # Dismiss a dialog with prompt text
chrome-devtools hover "id" # Hover over the provided element
chrome-devtools hover "id" --includeSnapshot true # Hover over an element and return a snapshot
chrome-devtools press_key "Enter" # Press a key or key combination
chrome-devtools press_key "Control+A" --includeSnapshot true # Press a key and return a snapshot
chrome-devtools type_text "hello" # Type text using keyboard into a focused input
chrome-devtools type_text "hello" --submitKey "Enter" # Type text and press a submit key
chrome-devtools upload_file "id" "file.txt" # Upload a file through a provided element
chrome-devtools upload_file "id" "file.txt" --includeSnapshot true # Upload a file and return a snapshot

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. yesterday First seen · 154 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 7382e3581eeb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chrome-devtools-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenCodeEngineer/chrome-devtools-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,901 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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