chrome-automation

chrome-automation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ufy2024/AuC. It costs 73 tokens per session (5,542 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for controlling an existing Google Chrome window through its developer connection, with browser actions visible as they happen.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to automate Chrome, observe browser actions, and work with pages in the user’s current browser session.
Why use it?
It helps an agent inspect and operate a real browser when ordinary scripted browser access is not enough.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/jyxc-dz-0100272/Documents/agent-browser.

Good fit Use it to automate Chrome, observe browser actions, and work with pages in the user’s current browser session.

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About the project

AuC is a Python framework for running a single AI agent with an asynchronous, pluggable reasoning loop, language-model adapters, permission levels, and observable events. It is used to build coding and conversational agents with tools, security checks, web interfaces, background jobs, evaluations, and isolated execution. The catalogue entries are skills for extending its agent workflow.

ufy2024/AuC · 1,090 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,542 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. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
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 $0.00073 $0.05542
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02771
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.01108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00554

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3791537ce45b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chrome-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 7d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

auc/skill_library/bundled/chrome-automation/SKILL.md · 691 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 691 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chrome Browser Automation with Real-time Control

Control the user's Google Chrome browser using agent-browser connected via Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP). All actions are visible in real-time in the user's browser window.

⚠️ CRITICAL: Automatic Installation & Dependency Check

BEFORE using this skill, ALWAYS run the auto-installation check:

This skill automatically checks and installs all required dependencies without user confirmation. The installation process verifies:

  • agent-browser repository and binary
  • Node.js and pnpm
  • Playwright Chromium
  • Rust toolchain (cargo)
  • Native binary compilation

Auto-installation workflow:

# Mac: Run auto-install script
bash ~/.claude/skills/chrome-automation/scripts/auto-install-mac.sh

# Windows: Run auto-install script (PowerShell)
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "$HOME\.claude\skills\chrome-automation\scripts\auto-install-windows.ps1"

The script will:

  1. Check if agent-browser binary exists and works
  2. Install missing dependencies automatically (pnpm, Rust, etc.)
  3. Clone repository if not present
  4. Build native binary with proper Rust toolchain
  5. Verify installation success

Critical rules:

  • ❌ DO NOT fall back to using built-in browser tools (browser_use_desktop)
  • ✅ MUST run auto-install script before any browser automation
  • ✅ Only proceed with browser automation AFTER successful installation
  • ✅ Script handles all dependency checks automatically

Why agent-browser is required:

  • Provides real-time visual feedback in user's actual Chrome browser
  • Allows user to see and interact with automation in progress
  • Offers precise element selection and interaction capabilities
  • Built-in browser tools are NOT a substitute for this skill's functionality

Quick Start

First-time setup (automatic)

Run the auto-install script first:

# Mac
bash ~/.claude/skills/chrome-automation/scripts/auto-install-mac.sh

# Windows (PowerShell)
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "$HOME\.claude\skills\chrome-automation\scripts\auto-install-windows.ps1"

Read the full file on GitHub · 691 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.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 691 lines · 73 tokens per session scan E 3791537ce45b

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chrome-automation is a skill published in the GitHub repository ufy2024/AuC (1,090 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 5,542 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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