lightpanda

lightpanda is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from spideynolove/claude-dotfiles. It costs 56 tokens per session (443 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lightweight headless browser for fetching and scraping web-page content without opening a visible browser. It can dump HTML directly, save results to a file, obey robots.txt, or provide a connection for Playwright and Puppeteer automation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch web pages, extract or save their HTML, respect robots.txt, or start a browser-automation connection when interaction is required; it does not support screenshots.
Why use it?
It provides a lower-overhead way to read page HTML when interactive browser controls or screenshots are unnecessary.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to fetch web pages, extract or save their HTML, respect robots.txt, or start a browser-automation connection when interaction is required; it does not support screenshots.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/spideynolove/claude-dotfiles/lightpanda
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 spideynolove/claude-dotfiles --skill lightpanda
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spideynolove/claude-dotfiles

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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agentmods 80×15 button for lightpanda

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 443 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 $0.00056 $0.00443
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00177
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00044

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 84d07b84d070, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lightpanda 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.

.claude-global/skills/lightpanda/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Lightpanda

Fast headless browser (~107MB binary, Zig). No MCP — direct CLI calls only.

Binary: ~/.local/bin/lightpanda

Core Commands

Fetch a URL (dump HTML)

~/.local/bin/lightpanda fetch --dump https://example.com

Save to file (avoid flooding context)

~/.local/bin/lightpanda fetch --dump https://example.com > /tmp/page.html

With logging

~/.local/bin/lightpanda fetch --dump --log_level info https://example.com

Respect robots.txt

~/.local/bin/lightpanda fetch --dump --obey_robots https://example.com

CDP Server (for Playwright/Puppeteer integration)

~/.local/bin/lightpanda serve --host 127.0.0.1 --port 9222

Then connect Playwright via browserWSEndpoint: 'ws://127.0.0.1:9222'.

Usage Rules

  • Always save to /tmp/ when fetching pages — never let raw HTML flood context
  • Use fetch --dump for read-only content extraction
  • Use serve only when interactive automation is needed (prefer fetch otherwise)
  • Disable telemetry if needed: LIGHTPANDA_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true
  • Does NOT support screenshots — use Playwright for that

Comparison vs Playwright

lightpanda playwright (mcporter)
Overhead None (pure CLI) MCP + mcporter
Use case Read HTML content Full browser automation
Speed Instant Slower startup
Screenshots No Yes
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 First seen · 56 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 84d07b84d070

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lightpanda is a skill published in the GitHub repository spideynolove/claude-dotfiles (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 443 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 2026-08-31.

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