chromium-browser

chromium-browser is a skill for Codex from PaulRBerg/agent-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,016 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A browser-control tool for inspecting and debugging an existing Chrome browser through Chrome DevTools. Chrome DevTools is the built-in set of tools for examining web pages and browser activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to browse pages, inspect layouts, run console and network checks, debug problems, review performance or memory use, and research archived pages.
Why use it?
It lets an agent investigate a live browser session without opening a separate browser profile or disturbing unrelated tabs.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to browse pages, inspect layouts, run console and network checks, debug problems, review performance or memory use, and research archived pages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/chromium-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 PaulRBerg/agent-skills --skill chromium-browser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PaulRBerg/agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,016 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 20
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00047 $0.01016
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00508
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00102

Measured 11d ago against content hash 793218728dab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chromium-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 11d 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/chromium-browser/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chromium Browser

Operate the configured Chrome DevTools MCP against the existing shared browser without disrupting unrelated tabs or authenticated state.

Environment Contract

  • Treat ~/.local/libexec/mcp/chrome-devtools and the tools exposed in the current session as authoritative. The wrapper owns server versioning, flags, logging, and browser attachment; do not run the MCP package directly.
  • The MCP attaches to an existing remote-debugging browser. Never launch a fallback browser or create another profile when attachment fails.
  • Treat the browser as shared, authenticated, and concurrently used by the user and other agents. Inspect only pages relevant to the task and do not surface unrelated tab titles or content.
  • Trust the live tool inventory; an absent tool is unavailable in this session. Do not advise editing client MCP configuration as a troubleshooting shortcut.

Reference Routing

For Wayback Machine capture discovery or replay research, read references/wayback-machine.md before making any Wayback request. Otherwise do not load it. Discover captures through serialized APIs outside Chromium, then open only the selected replay when rendered inspection adds evidence.

Page Ownership

  1. Call list_pages before interacting and preserve the initial pages as pre-existing state.
  2. Prefer new_page with background: true when a fresh page satisfies the task. Record the exact pageId returned by every page this task creates; never infer ownership from a later page-list difference.
  3. Pass an explicit pageId to every page-scoped tool. Do not rely on selected-page state; use select_page only when deliberately bringing a page to the foreground.
  4. Navigate or mutate a pre-existing page only when the task explicitly depends on that page's current state. Never close a pre-existing page.
  5. At completion, close only the recorded pages created by this task unless the user asked to leave one open.

Interaction and Evidence

  • On one page, navigate, wait for a useful known signal, take a fresh snapshot, then interact with identifiers from that snapshot. Refresh it after navigation or meaningful DOM changes.
  • Prefer take_snapshot for structure and automation, take_screenshot for visual evidence, and evaluate_script for information absent from the accessibility tree. Accept wrapper screenshot defaults unless the task requires lossless or full-resolution output.
  • Keep action responses small with includeSnapshot: false unless the updated state is immediately needed. Paginate and filter console, network, memory, and other high-volume results.
  • When a cookie consent popup appears, select only necessary or essential cookies by default, including through its settings when needed. If no such option is available, accept all cookies and continue.
  • Use filePath for large screenshots, snapshots, traces, recordings, or response bodies, writing only to a task-authorized workspace path or a temporary location. Unrestricted path capability is not write authorization.
  • Parallelize independent pages when useful, but preserve causal order for calls targeting the same page.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 80 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 793218728dab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chromium-browser is a skill published in the GitHub repository PaulRBerg/agent-skills (70 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,016 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 2026-08-30.

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