Technical & DevelopmentIntermediate

browser

Interactive headless browser sessions on cloud infrastructure.

Developer Setup

Setup & Installation

bash

npx skills add https://github.com/browserbase/skills --skill browser

npx skills add https://github.com/browserbase/skills --skill browser

Or paste this URL into your assistant to install:

https://github.com/browserbase/skills/tree/main/skills/browser View on GitHub

Overview

What This Skill Does

Provides cloud-hosted browser sessions supporting Playwright/Puppeteer with built-in proxy rotation and CAPTCHA solvers.

Application

When to use this Skill

When your agent needs to interactively browse, click, and inspect modern JavaScript-heavy web applications.
When you want to run Puppeteer, Playwright, or Selenium scripts on a cloud-hosted, scalable browser infrastructure.
When bypasses for antibot systems, CAPTCHAs, and IP rate limits are required out of the box.
When you need session persistence across multiple automated steps with custom user contexts.
When you want to inspect a live running browser session visually via VNC/WebSocket.

Documentation

Show Skills.md file

Browser Automation

Automate browser interactions using the browse CLI with Claude.

Setup check

Before running any browser commands, verify the CLI is available:

which browse || npm install -g browse

Environment Selection (Local vs Remote)

The CLI supports explicit per-command environment flags. If you do nothing, the next session defaults to Browserbase when BROWSERBASE_API_KEY is set and to local otherwise.

Local mode

browse open <url> --local starts a clean isolated local browser
browse open <url> --auto-connect attaches to an already-running debuggable Chrome; use --local when no debuggable Chrome is available
browse open <url> --cdp <port|url> attaches to a specific CDP target
Best for: development, localhost, trusted sites, and reproducible runs

Remote mode (Browserbase)

browse open <url> --remote starts a Browserbase session
Without a local flag, Browserbase is also the default when BROWSERBASE_API_KEY is set

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