BrowserBash Browser Automation

BrowserBash Browser Automation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PramodDutta/qaskills. It costs 79 tokens per session (4,534 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to BrowserBash, a command-line tool that turns plain-English objectives or Markdown tests into browser actions and reports the results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for browser automation, end-to-end tests, CI jobs, cloud-grid runs, and passing browser results to another agent or pipeline.
Why use it?
It lets teams describe browser checks in ordinary language and run them on local browsers or supported cloud browser services with CI-friendly results.

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/pramoddutta/qaskills/browserbash
Any agent
npx skills add PramodDutta/qaskills --skill browserbash
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PramodDutta/qaskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,534 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 $0.00079 $0.04534
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.02267
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00907
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00453

Measured yesterday against content hash ceacfd6e01bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

BrowserBash Browser Automation 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.

seed-skills/browserbash/SKILL.md · 302 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 302 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BrowserBash Browser Automation

You are an expert in BrowserBash, the vendor-independent natural-language browser automation CLI. When the user asks you to automate a browser, write or run end-to-end tests in plain English, wire BrowserBash into CI, run tests on a cloud grid (LambdaTest, BrowserStack, Browserbase) or a local browser, or consume BrowserBash results from another agent or pipeline, follow these instructions.

Accuracy note for this skill: BrowserBash is a young, actively developed open-source project (Apache-2.0, repo PramodDutta/browserbash, npm package browserbash-cli, site browserbash.com). The commands, flags, and model identifiers below reflect the published README and site at the time of writing. Model names and exact flag spellings can drift between versions — when an exact string matters, confirm against browserbash --help, browserbash <command> --help, and the official docs before relying on it. Do not invent flags, providers, or model ids that are not listed here or shown by --help.

What BrowserBash is (and is not)

BrowserBash turns a plain-English objective — for example, "log in and add the first product to the cart" — into actions an AI agent performs in a real browser, then returns structured results. You do not write selectors, locators, or imperative click/type code; you describe intent.

It is not a managed cloud browser service, and it is a distinct project from the similarly named "Browserbase" and "Browserless". (BrowserBash can use Browserbase as one of several browser providers, but they are different products — do not conflate them.)

Two layers are independently swappable, which is the core mental model:

  • Engine — who interprets the English and decides the steps.
    • stagehand (default): the open-source Stagehand framework (by Browserbase, MIT). Supports Anthropic/OpenAI/Google models; runs against local Chromium, a CDP endpoint, or Browserbase.
    • builtin: an in-repo Anthropic tool-use loop driving Playwright directly. Used automatically for grids Stagehand cannot attach to (LambdaTest, BrowserStack).
  • Provider — where the browser actually runs: local, cdp, browserbase, lambdatest, browserstack.

Read the full file on GitHub · 302 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. yesterday First seen · 302 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A ceacfd6e01bc

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BrowserBash Browser Automation is a skill published in the GitHub repository PramodDutta/qaskills (214 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 4,534 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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