What is browser-automation?

A set of practices for automating web browsers through small, reusable actions such as opening pages, clicking controls, entering text, and selecting options.

Use it to automate browsing workflows, reproduce selector or scrolling problems, and debug browser tools from the command line.

It helps make browser tasks more dependable by checking the page before acting and confirming that each action changed the expected state.

How ton-to-ton/real-browser-mcp configures Codex

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ton-to-ton/real-browser-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ton-to-ton/real-browser-mcp/main/.codex/skill/browser-automation/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ton-to-ton/real-browser-mcp

Made for: 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 584 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00017	$0.00584
Opus 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00234
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00117
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00058

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 47e49fe0f42f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

browser-automation 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 2mo 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.

.codex/skill/browser-automation/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What I do

Provide a safe, composable workflow for browsing tasks
Use browser_query list and index selection to click reliably
Confirm state changes after each action
Support CLI-first debugging with codex-browser tool commands

Best-practice workflow

Inspect tabs with browser_get_tabs
Open new tabs with browser_open_tab when needed
Navigate with browser_navigate if needed
Wait for UI using browser_query with timeoutMs
Discover candidates using browser_query with mode=list
Click, type, or select using index
Confirm using browser_query or browser_snapshot

CLI-first debugging

List all available tools: npx codex-browser tools
Run one tool directly: npx codex-browser tool browser_status
Pass JSON args: npx codex-browser tool browser_query --args '{"mode":"page_text"}'
Run smoke test: npx codex-browser self-test
After update, reload the unpacked extension in chrome://extensions

This path is useful for reproducing selector and scroll issues quickly before running a full Codex session.

Selecting options

Use browser_select for native <select> elements
Prefer value or label; use optionIndex when needed
Example: browser_select({ selector: "select", value: "plugin" })

Query modes

text: read visible text from a matched element
value: read input values
list: list many matches with text/metadata
exists: check presence and count
page_text: extract visible page text

Opening tabs

Use browser_open_tab to create a new tab, optionally with url and active
Example: browser_open_tab({ url: "https://example.com", active: false })

Troubleshooting

If a selector fails, run browser_query with mode=page_text to confirm the content exists
Use mode=list on broad selectors (button, a, *[role="button"], *[role="listitem"]) and choose by index
For inbox or chat panes, try text selectors first (text:Subject line) then verify selection with browser_query
For scrollable containers, pass both selector and x or y to browser_scroll and then verify scrollTop
Confirm results after each action

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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.

2mo ago First seen · 64 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 47e49fe0f42f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

browser-automation is a skill published in the GitHub repository ton-to-ton/real-browser-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 584 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

Browser automation

browser-automation next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
browser-automationton-to-ton/real-browser-mcp	Skill	0	4mo ago	MIT	A	17	Codex
interactive-loginyc-software/qm	Skill	16k	today	MIT	A	46	Claude Code, Codex
pinchtab-mcppinchtab/pinchtab	Skill	11k	10d ago	MIT	A	52	Claude Code, Codex
azure-messaging-webpubsub-javamicrosoft/skills	Skill	3.2k	today	MIT	A	43	Claude Code
cua-driverdavidondrej/skills	Skill	4.3k	yesterday	MIT	A	68	Claude Code, Codex
open-design-browsercompozy/compozy	Skill	2.9k	today	MIT	A	56	Claude Code, Codex
southwestborski/travel-hacking-toolkit	Skill	906	yesterday	MIT	A	40	Claude Code

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