browser-relay

browser-relay is a skill for Claude Code from reliefeai/browser-relay. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,789 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to control Chrome tabs that are already open and logged in. It works with the user’s existing browser session instead of starting a separate browser.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to navigate protected websites, inspect page content, fill forms, click controls, scroll, take screenshots, and run page JavaScript.
Why use it?
It lets an agent work with sites that require existing cookies, single sign-on, extensions, or intranet access. The user can keep using the foreground tab while another tab is controlled.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the browser-relay plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to navigate protected websites, inspect page content, fill forms, click controls, scroll, take screenshots, and run page JavaScript.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/reliefeai/browser-relay/browser-relay
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 reliefeai/browser-relay --skill browser-relay
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reliefeai/browser-relay

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install browser-relay, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

agentmods badge for browser-relay

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for browser-relay

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,789 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 high

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 →

  • high Agent Snooping · line 327
    Skill accesses MCP server configuration files (mcp.json). MCP configs contain server URLs, authentication tokens, and tool definitions — reading them allows the skill to discover and potentially abuse other tool integrations.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that read MCP configuration files (mcp.json). MCP server details should be managed by the agent runtime, not read by individual skills.
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 $0.00052 $0.01789
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00716
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00179

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 54960cbeb8ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

browser-relay 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 1mo 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/browser-relay/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Browser Relay

Use the user's existing browser and login state. Select an actual tab ID by URL and title; a foreground change must not redirect your work.

browser-relay tabs
browser-relay read --tab <id> --session <task-name>

Use a distinct session name for each independent task. Managed operations claim the tab for that session. Another owner must release or hand it off before you operate it; never stop someone else's session merely to gain access. These leases coordinate trusted clients, not access control against local software.

Choose the observation that answers the question

  • Reading: read focuses on main content and preserves semantic groups, complete text and full URLs. read --ref <ref> reads an observed subtree.
  • Operating: observe includes the whole page, controls, states and refs. Use it to find navigation, dialogs or controls outside the main content.
  • Seeing: use screenshots for canvas, layout, missing accessible text or a semantic action with an unexpected outcome. In the runtime, tab.observe({mode:'both'}) returns a snapshot and screenshot together. With CLI use observe --mode both --output /tmp/page.png --tab <id> --session <name>.

Follow nextCursor (read --cursor <cursor>) when an observation is truncated. A cursor continues the same captured text; it is not a new live observation. After navigation it expires. If the page exceeds the cache limit, read a smaller subtree. Do not report a partial result as the complete page or article. Runtime output has a separate budget: if runtimeOutput.nextCursor is returned, run its readWith expression in the same session to recover the clipped output. Then follow any browser nextCursor it contains; a new diff cannot recover it. A site's “Show more” is separate from output pagination: expand the site control when the task needs the full article. Group parents, quoted material and replies remain distinct; do not count recommendations as comments or duplicate cards.

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 1mo ago Changed · +5 lines 54960cbeb8ea
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -209 lines · -34 tokens per session 595c5c1937ce
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 361 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 5e2b8ac45251

Subscribe to this mod's changes

browser-relay is a skill published in the GitHub repository reliefeai/browser-relay (136 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,789 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.