control-chrome-bridge

control-chrome-bridge is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ShalomObongo/chrome-bridge-mcp. It costs 114 tokens per session (2,188 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for controlling the user’s already-running Chrome browser, including its tabs, cookies, and signed-in sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read pages behind a login, fill in forms, test a local web app, inspect pages, or take browser-based actions through Chrome.
Why use it?
It explains when browser control is appropriate and how to inspect pages or use existing login state without treating every URL as a command to open.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to read pages behind a login, fill in forms, test a local web app, inspect pages, or take browser-based actions through Chrome.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shalomobongo/chrome-bridge-mcp/control-chrome-bridge
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 ShalomObongo/chrome-bridge-mcp --skill control-chrome-bridge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShalomObongo/chrome-bridge-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,188 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.
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 $0.00114 $0.02188
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.01094
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00438
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00219

Measured 9d ago against content hash ea24d075e581, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

control-chrome-bridge 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 9d 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/control-chrome-bridge/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Control Chrome (chrome-bridge)

This skill governs the chrome-bridge MCP server, which controls the user's real, running Chrome over the Chrome DevTools Protocol. There is no sandbox: the tabs are theirs, the cookies are theirs, and every session they are signed into is reachable. Treat that as the defining constraint.

Choose the right tool first

Reaching for the browser is not free — it is slower than an API and it exposes authenticated surfaces. Before starting:

  • If a purpose-built connector, API or CLI can do the job, use it instead.
  • If one exists but fails on expired auth, ask the user to re-authenticate rather than routing around it through the browser.
  • A URL in the conversation is context, not an instruction to open a browser. Re-evaluate per operation; earlier browser use does not make later work browser-first.
  • Do use the browser when the task is genuinely about the page (inspect, navigate, click, fill, screenshot), when the resource is only reachable behind the user's existing login, or when you are testing a local app the user is developing.

Core loop

browser_tabs → browser_attach (or browser_new_tab) → browser_snapshot
      → act (click / type / select / hover / press_key / scroll)
      → read the snapshot that comes back → repeat → browser_detach
  1. browser_tabs lists every open tab. Read it before assuming anything about what is open.
  2. browser_attach takes control of an existing tab — this is what reuses the user's logins. Omit tabId to take the active tab. browser_new_tab opens a fresh one instead, placed in a labelled tab group so the user can tell it apart from their own.
  3. browser_snapshot is your eyes. It returns a compact outline of everything visible, with a [ref=…] on each actionable element. It is far cheaper than a screenshot and is the correct default for understanding page state.
  4. Every interaction tool returns a fresh snapshot, so you see the consequence of an action without a second call. Read it; do not immediately re-snapshot out of habit.
  5. browser_detach when you are done. It releases the tab, restores the page favicon and dismisses Chrome's "being debugged" banner.

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 9d ago First seen · 160 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A ea24d075e581

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control-chrome-bridge is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShalomObongo/chrome-bridge-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 2,188 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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