chrome

chrome is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Panchangam18/background-computer-use. It costs 62 tokens per session (480 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for controlling Google Chrome or similar Chromium browsers through background automation, without taking focus away from the current app.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when navigating websites, clicking links or buttons, filling in forms, or scrolling pages in Chrome, Brave, Edge, or Arc.
Why use it?
They provide a consistent way to inspect pages, navigate, click, enter text, and scroll when ordinary browser controls may not work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the background-computer-use plugin — 8 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/panchangam18/background-computer-use/chrome
Any agent
npx skills add Panchangam18/background-computer-use --skill chrome
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Panchangam18/background-computer-use

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install background-computer-use, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 480 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 $0.00062 $0.00480
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00240
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00048

Measured 4d ago against content hash b4ccfa9c2ee9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chrome 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.

skills/chrome/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Driving Chrome with background computer use

Chrome is Chromium-based and cooperates well with background automation once the server enables AXManualAccessibility (which happens automatically on the first get_app_state).

  1. Call get_app_state app="Google Chrome" before interacting. The webpage DOM is exposed as accessibility nodes under a single HTML content element.
  2. URL navigation: set the Address and search bar text field. set_value app="Google Chrome" element_index=<N> value="https://…" works and submits by default.
  3. Clicks on in-page links and buttons: use click(element_index=...). Chrome honors AXPress on Chromium AX nodes even when the window isn't key, so clicks don't steal focus.
  4. Typing into form fields: set_value auto-falls-back to a typing path when the AX write is rejected (which is typical for Chromium controls). Focus stays with whichever app you had foremost.
  5. Scrolling: scroll app="Google Chrome" element_index=<HTML content> direction="down" works via AppleScript execute ... javascript. It finds the nearest scrollable ancestor at the viewport center (so it picks the right sub-scroller in app-style pages like Gmail, LinkedIn, or Notion, not just window).

Known limitation:

  • scroll for Chrome always scrolls a window-level or sub-scroller picked by the "viewport-center ancestor" heuristic. If you need to scroll a specific sub-region that isn't at the viewport center, click into it first to re-center the heuristic, or use press_key key="PageDown" with the understanding that it will focus Chrome.

Detailed notes live in server/app-hints/Chrome.md; they are injected as <app_hints> on every get_app_state call for Chrome.

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 · 39 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A b4ccfa9c2ee9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chrome is a skill published in the GitHub repository Panchangam18/background-computer-use (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 480 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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