browser-use

browser-use is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from steipete/agent-scripts. It costs 38 tokens per session (3,453 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for controlling the user's existing signed-in Chrome browser. It chooses an available Chrome connector, then uses an extension-backed connection or direct developer-tools access only as a last fallback.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect or operate websites in the user's logged-in Chrome, verify live web interfaces, and complete browser tasks that need the existing profile.
Why use it?
It supports tasks that depend on the user's real browser session and existing logins. It also defines safe routing and rules against substituting isolated browsers or generic GUI automation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions Codex; built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to inspect or operate websites in the user's logged-in Chrome, verify live web interfaces, and complete browser tasks that need the existing profile.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/steipete/agent-scripts/browser-use
About the project

Agent Scripts is a repository of shared instructions, reusable skills, helper scripts, and local safeguards for coding-agent workflows across multiple workspaces. It is for maintaining common agent behavior and portable development utilities between repositories.

steipete/agent-scripts · 7,371 stars · on GitHub · steipete.me

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 steipete/agent-scripts --skill browser-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,453 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00038 $0.03453
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.01381
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00691
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00345

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b4c648aa84d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

browser-use scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (auto-allow.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

`curl`, source inspection, API checks, and isolated test browsers as supporting
skills/browser-use/SKILL.md · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Browser Use

Control the user's existing real Chrome profile, especially for login-dependent work and live UI verification.

Route

  1. Use the Codex Chrome or Chrome [Internal] plugin when it is callable in the active session. Installed on disk is not enough.
  2. Otherwise prefer the OpenClaw extension-backed mcporter route.
  3. Use legacy direct DevTools attachment only as the explicit last fallback.

For mcporter, the MCP call remains the agent-facing control interface. The OpenClaw extension is the transport underneath it, not a separate tool. Set chromeDevtoolsRelay: "require" on the canonical global Chrome server definition to enforce relay-only routing. Keep the caller policy explicit as well:

MCPORTER_CHROME_DEVTOOLS_RELAY_POLICY=require mcporter call chrome-devtools.<tool>

Seeing an agent request the chrome-devtools MCP tool is therefore expected. A Chrome Allow remote debugging? prompt or a relay-policy error indicates that the extension transport was not used. The shared daemon retains canonical policy; a shell environment prefix alone cannot change that policy.

Never use isolated Chrome, the Codex in-app browser, Playwright, Puppeteer, AppleScript, osascript, generic GUI scripting, or macOS open as a browser-control substitute unless the user explicitly asks for an isolated or new browser. Peekaboo is allowed only for Chrome or extension setup and visible prompts. Login-heavy sites often depend on the real profile's cookies, SSO, device trust, and extensions.

For a rendered-browser bug, prove behavior through this real profile. Treat curl, source inspection, API checks, and isolated test browsers as supporting evidence, not substitutes for live UI proof.

Extension Relay Model

OpenClaw creates a random per-host relay key in its mode-0600 credentials directory. The extension and same-host clients use nonce-bound mutual HMAC proofs. The reusable key is never sent to an unverified loopback listener, placed in a URL, or passed to the child MCP process. Keep credentials out of configuration, command output, chat, logs, and screenshots.

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 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 · +62 lines b4c648aa84d6
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 229 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 8ef52654356c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

browser-use is a skill published in the GitHub repository steipete/agent-scripts (7,371 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 3,453 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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