browser-use

A browser automation tool for opening websites, inspecting pages, clicking controls, entering text, taking screenshots, and extracting information. It can keep a browser session open between commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for web testing, form filling, page navigation, screenshots, and collecting data from websites.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive manual browser work and can preserve existing Chrome logins and cookies when connected to the user's browser.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/twaldin/flt/browser-use
Any agent
npx skills add twaldin/flt --skill browser-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/twaldin/flt

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,306 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00047 $0.02306
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01153
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00461
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00231

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3321af86d2ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

browser-use 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 3d 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.

templates/skills/browser-use/SKILL.md · 236 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 236 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Browser Automation with browser-use CLI

The browser-use command provides fast, persistent browser automation. A background daemon keeps the browser open across commands, giving ~50ms latency per call.

Prerequisites

browser-use doctor    # Verify installation

For setup details, see https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/blob/main/browser_use/skill_cli/README.md

Core Workflow

  1. Navigate: browser-use open <url> — launches headless browser and opens page
  2. Inspect: browser-use state — returns clickable elements with indices
  3. Interact: use indices from state (browser-use click 5, browser-use input 3 "text")
  4. Verify: browser-use state or browser-use screenshot to confirm
  5. Repeat: browser stays open between commands

If a command fails, run browser-use close first to clear any broken session, then retry.

To use the user's existing Chrome (preserves logins/cookies): run browser-use connect first. To use a cloud browser instead: run browser-use cloud connect first. After either, commands work the same way.

If browser-use connect fails

When browser-use connect cannot find a running Chrome with remote debugging, prompt the user with two options:

  1. Use their real Chrome browser — they need to enable remote debugging first:
    • Open chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging in Chrome, or relaunch Chrome with --remote-debugging-port=9222
    • Then retry browser-use connect
  2. Use managed Chromium with their Chrome profile — no Chrome setup needed:
    • Run browser-use profile list to show available profiles
    • Ask which profile they want, then use browser-use --profile "ProfileName" open <url>
    • This launches a separate Chromium instance with their profile data (cookies, logins, extensions)

Let the user choose — don't assume one path over the other.

Browser Modes

browser-use open <url>                         # Default: headless Chromium (no setup needed)
browser-use --headed open <url>                # Visible window (for debugging)
browser-use connect                            # Connect to user's Chrome (preserves logins/cookies)
browser-use cloud connect                      # Cloud browser (zero-config, requires API key)
browser-use --profile "Default" open <url>     # Real Chrome with specific profile

Read the full file on GitHub · 236 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. 3d ago First seen · 236 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 3321af86d2ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

browser-use is a skill published in the GitHub repository twaldin/flt (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,306 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 2026-08-31.

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