actionbook

actionbook is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from smallnest/goclaw. It costs 49 tokens per session (3,574 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for automating multi-step tasks in websites, including browser control, web scraping, interface testing, and browser-based AI agents. It explains two modes: a clean browser session and control of an already-open Chrome session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to operate websites, scrape pages, test website interfaces, build browser agents, or work through an existing Chrome session.
Why use it?
It helps automation handle navigation and interaction across several web pages without guessing selectors or browser setup. It also clarifies when existing logins and tabs are needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to operate websites, scrape pages, test website interfaces, build browser agents, or work through an existing Chrome session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/smallnest/goclaw/actionbook
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 smallnest/goclaw --skill actionbook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/smallnest/goclaw

Made for: Claude Code, 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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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,574 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 $0.00049 $0.03574
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01787
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00715
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00357

Measured 8d ago against content hash e6366f07a310, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

actionbook 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 8d 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.

internal/builtin_skills/actionbook/SKILL.md · 421 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 421 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when the user:

  • Needs to complete a multi-step task ("Send a LinkedIn message", "Book an Airbnb")
  • Asks how to interact with a website ("How do I post a tweet?")
  • Builds browser-based AI agents or web scrapers
  • Writes E2E tests for external websites
  • Navigates to any new page during browser automation
  • Wants to control their existing Chrome browser (Extension mode)

Browser Modes

Actionbook supports two browser control modes:

Mode Flag Use Case
CDP (default) (none) Launches a dedicated browser instance via Chrome DevTools Protocol
Extension --extension Controls the user's existing Chrome browser via a Chrome Extension + WebSocket bridge

When to use Extension mode:

  • The user wants to operate on their already-open Chrome (with existing logins, cookies, tabs)
  • The task requires interacting with pages that need the user's real session state
  • The user explicitly mentions their Chrome browser, extension, or existing tabs

When to use CDP mode (default):

  • Clean browser environment is preferred
  • Headless automation or CI/CD
  • Profile-based session isolation is needed

All actionbook browser commands work identically in both modes. The only difference is adding --extension flag (or setting ACTIONBOOK_EXTENSION=1).

How to Use

Phase 1: Get Action Manual

# Step 1: Search for action manuals
actionbook search "arxiv search papers"
# Returns: area IDs with descriptions

# Step 2: Get the full manual (use area_id from search results)
actionbook get "arxiv.org:/search/advanced:default"
# Returns: Page structure, UI Elements with CSS/XPath selectors

Phase 2: Execute with Browser (CDP mode — default)

# Step 3: Open browser
actionbook browser open "https://arxiv.org/search/advanced"

# Step 4: Use CSS selectors from Action Manual directly
actionbook browser fill "#terms-0-term" "Neural Network"
actionbook browser select "#terms-0-field" "title"
actionbook browser click "#date-filter_by-2"
actionbook browser fill "#date-year" "2025"
actionbook browser click "form[action='/search/advanced'] button.is-link"

# Step 5: Wait for results
actionbook browser wait-nav

# Step 6: Extract data
actionbook browser text

# Step 7: Close browser
actionbook browser close

Read the full file on GitHub · 421 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 8d ago First seen · 421 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A e6366f07a310

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actionbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository smallnest/goclaw (603 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 3,574 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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