setup-browser-cookies

When to invoke

Use when asked to "import cookies", "login to the site", or "authenticate the browser".

Preamble

eval "$(~/.vibestack/bin/vibe-slug 2>/dev/null)" 2>/dev/null || SLUG="unknown"
_LEARN_FILE="${VIBESTACK_HOME:-$HOME/.vibestack}/projects/${SLUG:-unknown}/learnings.jsonl"
if [ -f "$_LEARN_FILE" ]; then
  _LEARN_COUNT=$(wc -l < "$_LEARN_FILE" 2>/dev/null | tr -d ' ')
  echo "LEARNINGS: $_LEARN_COUNT entries loaded"
  if [ "$_LEARN_COUNT" -gt 5 ] 2>/dev/null; then
    ~/.vibestack/bin/vibe-learnings-search --limit 5 2>/dev/null || true
  fi
else
  echo "LEARNINGS: none yet"
fi

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Setup Browser Cookies

Import logged-in sessions from your real Chromium browser into the headless browse session.

CDP mode check

First, check if browse is already connected to the user's real browser:

$B status 2>/dev/null | grep -q "Mode: cdp" && echo "CDP_MODE=true" || echo "CDP_MODE=false"

If CDP_MODE=true: tell the user "Not needed — you're connected to your real browser via CDP. Your cookies and sessions are already available." and stop. No cookie import needed.

How it works

1. Find the browse binary
2. Run cookie-import-browser to detect installed browsers and open the picker UI
3. User selects which cookie domains to import in their browser
4. Cookies are decrypted and loaded into the Playwright session

Steps

1. Find the browse binary

B="${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/skills/setup-browser-cookies}/../browse/bin/vibe-browse"
[ -x "$B" ] || B="$(command -v vibe-browse || true)"
if [ -n "$B" ] && [ -x "$B" ] && [ "$("$B" status 2>/dev/null)" != "BROWSE_NOT_AVAILABLE" ]; then
  echo "READY: $B"
else
  echo "NEEDS_SETUP"
fi

If NEEDS_SETUP, stop and tell the user the browse binary could not be found or could not start — node is missing, or first-run setup was declined.