browse

A command-line tool for controlling local or cloud web browsers and working with Browserbase, a service for remote browser sessions. It can inspect pages, interact with websites, manage sessions and use web fetching or search.

In plain words
What is it for?
Opening pages, reading page structure, taking screenshots, clicking or typing, capturing network activity, managing Browserbase resources, and discovering Browse.sh skills.
Why use it?
It provides one interface for browser automation and for diagnosing or managing browser sessions.

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/rivet-dev/agentos/browse
Any agent
npx skills add rivet-dev/agentos --skill browse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rivet-dev/agentos

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,756 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 $0.00109 $0.03756
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01878
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00751
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00376

Measured yesterday against content hash 196f0b59ad62, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

browse 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.

examples/browserbase/skills/browse/SKILL.md · 369 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 369 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Browse CLI

Use browse as the primary Browserbase command-line interface.

It can:

  • drive a local or Browserbase-hosted browser session
  • inspect pages through accessibility snapshots, screenshots, DOM/text reads, and network capture
  • interact with pages by refs, selectors, XPath, keyboard, mouse, files, and viewport controls
  • manage Browserbase projects, sessions, contexts, extensions, fetch, and search APIs
  • develop, publish, and invoke Browserbase Functions
  • browse and scaffold Browserbase templates
  • diagnose local or remote browser setup issues
  • discover and install Browse.sh catalog skills
  • install or refresh this Browse CLI skill

Setup Check

Verify the CLI exists before relying on it:

which browse || npm install -g browse
browse --help

Install or refresh this skill with:

browse skills install

Use browse <topic> --help for exact flags before running unfamiliar commands.

Browser Target Selection

Browser driver commands auto-start the browse daemon when needed. Choose the browser target per command with flags:

browse open https://example.com --local
browse open https://example.com --local --headed
browse open https://example.com --remote
browse open https://example.com --remote --verified --proxies
browse open https://example.com --auto-connect
browse open https://example.com --cdp 9222
browse open https://example.com --cdp ws://127.0.0.1:9222/devtools/browser/<id>

Use local mode for development, localhost, trusted sites, and fast iteration. Use --auto-connect only when the user explicitly wants to attach to an already-running debuggable Chrome session with existing cookies or login state; use --local when no debuggable Chrome is available. Use remote mode when Browserbase credentials are available and the site needs hosted browser infrastructure, Verified browser mode, CAPTCHA solving, proxies, or session persistence.

For a Verified and/or proxied remote session, add --verified and/or --proxies to --remote — a single command that keeps the Browserbase session identity, so browse status and browse doctor report the session ID and live-view URL. --verified requires a Browserbase Scale plan. These flags only apply to --remote and are sticky for the session's lifetime, like --headed. Reach for browse cloud sessions create + --cdp only when you need session options open doesn't expose (region, keep-alive, contexts).

Read the full file on GitHub · 369 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 · 369 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 196f0b59ad62

Subscribe to this mod's changes

browse is a skill published in the GitHub repository rivet-dev/agentos (4,435 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 3,756 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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