vc:chrome-devtools

vc:chrome-devtools is a skill for Claude Code from opencue/cuecards. It costs 38 tokens per session (5,688 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ck:chrome-devtools, MIT.

A browser automation tool built around Puppeteer, a library for controlling Chrome with code. It can keep browser sessions open while you inspect and operate web pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to take screenshots, inspect performance and network activity, scrape pages, automate forms, review accessibility structure, and debug JavaScript in Chrome.
Why use it?
It removes the need to perform repetitive browser checks manually and helps investigate problems that only appear in a running page.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node "$SKILL_DIR/aria-snapshot.js" --url https://example.com --output ./.Codex/chrome-devtools/snapshots/page.yaml.

Good fit Use it to take screenshots, inspect performance and network activity, scrape pages, automate forms, review accessibility structure, and debug JavaScript in Chrome.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/opencue/cuecards
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/opencue/cuecards/vc-chrome-devtools

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,688 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 91% 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 $0.00038 $0.05688
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.02275
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.01138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00569

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 40cd55d728b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vc:chrome-devtools scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/__tests__/error-handling.test.js, scripts/__tests__/selector.test.js, scripts/aria-snapshot.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

# Netscape format (from curl/wget):
Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to ck:chrome-devtools — 67 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/vc-chrome-devtools/SKILL.md · 635 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 635 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chrome DevTools Agent Skill

Browser automation via Puppeteer scripts with persistent sessions. All scripts output JSON.

Skill Location

Skills can exist in project-scope or user-scope. Priority: project-scope > user-scope.

# Detect skill location (no cd needed - scripts use __dirname for paths)
SKILL_DIR=""
if [ -d ".Codex/skills/chrome-devtools/scripts" ]; then
  SKILL_DIR=".Codex/skills/chrome-devtools/scripts"
elif [ -d "$HOME/.Codex/skills/chrome-devtools/scripts" ]; then
  SKILL_DIR="$HOME/.Codex/skills/chrome-devtools/scripts"
fi
# Run scripts with full path: node "$SKILL_DIR/script.js" --args

Choosing Your Approach

Scenario Approach
Source-available sites Read source code first, write selectors directly
Unknown layouts Use aria-snapshot.js for semantic discovery
Visual inspection Take screenshots to verify rendering
Debug issues Collect console logs, analyze with session storage
Accessibility audit Use ARIA snapshot for semantic structure analysis

Project-Specific Setup

For Flowser-specific connection patterns and when to prefer chrome-devtools over agent-browser or docker exec, see process/context/tests/all-tests.md in the consuming repo. This skill file is a generic tool reference only.


Automation Browsing Running Mode

Browser visibility is resolved automatically by resolveHeadless() in lib/browser.js:

Environment Default Why
macOS / Windows Headed (visible) Better debugging, OAuth login support
Linux / WSL Headless Servers typically have no display
CI (CI, GITHUB_ACTIONS, GITLAB_CI, JENKINS_URL env vars) Headless No display available

Override with --headless true or --headless false on any script.

  • Run multiple scripts/sessions in parallel to simulate real user interactions.
  • Run multiple scripts/sessions in parallel to simulate different device types (mobile, tablet, desktop).

Read the full file on GitHub · 635 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 files 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. 1mo ago First seen · 635 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 40cd55d728b3

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vc:chrome-devtools is a skill published in the GitHub repository opencue/cuecards (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 5,688 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 91% identical to ck:chrome-devtools, differing in 67 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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