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Agent browser skill picks for automation and scraping

14 skills and skill packs reviewed. Sorted by verdict, then depth — how much real expertise ships with the skill — not by popularity.

Our picks

agent-browser

vercel-labs/agent-browser

A native browser-automation CLI for agents, plus 11 skills that teach the snapshot-and-ref workflow for navigating, filling forms, scraping and testing.

Recommended Check first Depth 4/5

playwright-cli

microsoft/playwright-cli

Microsoft's command-line interface for driving a browser through Playwright, plus a skill that teaches coding agents the commands.

Recommended Check first Depth 3/5

Playwright Skill

lackeyjb/playwright-skill

A skill that lets an agent write and run its own Playwright scripts for testing, screenshots, login flows and arbitrary browser automation.

Recommended Broad access Depth 3/5

All 14 reviewed

How we review
Skill Verdict Security Depth Stars Installs
agent-browser vercel-labs/agent-browser A native browser-automation CLI for agents, plus 11 skills that teach the snapshot-and-ref workflow for navigating, filling forms, scraping and testing.
Recommended Check first 4/5 45K 1.3M
playwright-cli microsoft/playwright-cli Microsoft's command-line interface for driving a browser through Playwright, plus a skill that teaches coding agents the commands.
Recommended Check first 3/5 15K 200K
Playwright Skill lackeyjb/playwright-skill A skill that lets an agent write and run its own Playwright scripts for testing, screenshots, login flows and arbitrary browser automation.
Recommended Broad access 3/5 3.3K —
squirrelscan Skills squirrelscan/skills Two skills and plugins for squirrelscan's website audit CLI: run 300+ SEO, security and accessibility rules, then fix the findings in code and re-audit.
With caveats Broad access 4/5 104 74K
Browser Use browser-use/browser-use Seven skills around the Browser Use browser agent: drive local Chrome over CDP, use the paid cloud API, run QA scoring, or pay by crypto wallet.
With caveats Broad access 3/5 119K 98K
Chrome DevTools MCP ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp Google's Chrome DevTools MCP server and CLI, plus seven skills for debugging performance, memory leaks, cookies and accessibility in a live Chrome.
With caveats Check first 3/5 54K —
BrowserAct Skills browser-act/skills A browser-automation CLI skill with stealth browsers, CAPTCHA solving and handoff to a human, plus about 100 ready-made scraper skills for shops and lead sources.
With caveats Broad access 3/5 6.3K 193K
Firecrawl Skills firecrawl/skills Firecrawl's official catalog of 37 skills for web search, scraping, crawling and browser interaction, plus API integration and workflow recipes.
With caveats Check first 3/5 140 247K
Google Maps Scraper gosom/google-maps-scraper Agent skill that runs the open-source gosom Google Maps scraper locally in Docker to collect business leads, reviews, emails and contact details.
With caveats Broad access 3/5 7.0K —
bb-browser epiral/bb-browser A CLI and MCP server that lets agents drive your real, logged-in Chrome and run site adapters (103 commands, 36 platforms), with two small skills describing the commands.
With caveats Broad access 3/5 6.3K —
Apify Agent Skills apify/agent-skills Apify's official skills for scraping with its Actor marketplace and for building, converting and integrating Actors with the apify CLI.
With caveats Check first 3/5 2.5K —
shinkoku (Japanese tax filing) kazukinagata/shinkoku A Japanese-language plugin of 24 skills that walks sole proprietors and employees through kakutei shinkoku: bookkeeping, tax calculation and e-Tax entry.
With caveats Check first 3/5 366 —
Firecrawl CLI firecrawl/cli Firecrawl's command-line client and 13 agent skills for web search, scraping, crawling, interacting with pages and parsing files through the paid Firecrawl API.
With caveats Check first 2/5 674 660K
terminal-browser zenbu-labs/terminal-browser A real Chromium browser inside a kitty-graphics terminal, with a verify skill that drives apps headlessly in a pty and records a video of the check.
With caveats Check first 2/5 4.3K —

An agent browser skill teaches a coding agent to drive a real browser: open pages, fill forms, take screenshots, scrape data and test your app. We reviewed 14. Three get an install verdict and eleven come with caveats. None is rated clean: a browser can reach your logged-in sessions, so every skill here has some access you should know about.

How an agent browser skill works

Most of these skills wrap a command line tool or a library, and the skill text teaches the agent the commands. The tool does the work: it launches Chrome or another browser, runs steps and returns page content. Some, like Playwright Skill, have the agent write and run its own scripts.

The browser’s profile decides how much it can see. An in-memory profile starts empty. Attaching to your running Chrome, importing cookies or saving a state file hands the agent whatever those sessions can do. The Claude Code docs warn about prompt injection from servers that fetch external content, and a browser is the clearest case: any page it opens can contain text aimed at your agent.

What to look for in a browser skill

Check the profile and cookie behavior first. Then check how permissions are granted: several skills pre-approve a wildcard over their own command, which the skills docs describe as a grant for the turn, not a restriction on other tools. A wildcard over the skill’s own CLI is normal. A wildcard over node or bash is much broader.

Next, look at paid services and terms of service. Stealth browsers and CAPTCHA solving carry account and terms risks. Hosted scrapers bill per result. Finally, look at what you must install: a global npm package, a Python CLI, Chrome for Testing.

Of the 14, 8 are marked “review” and 6 have broad access. See the security page for the labels.

  • agent-browser from Vercel Labs is a native CLI with 11 skills built on a snapshot and reference workflow. It has about 1.29 million recorded installs. Its skills pre-approve any agent-browser command, and it can reuse your real Chrome profile or save cookies to state files that stay plaintext unless you set AGENT_BROWSER_ENCRYPTION_KEY. The CLI binary itself was not reviewed.
  • playwright-cli is Microsoft’s command line interface plus a skill with ten reference files. It pre-approves wildcard shell access to playwright-cli and npx playwright. By default the profile lives in memory, but the skill documents attaching to running Chrome or Edge and reading cookies. It needs Node 18 or newer.
  • Playwright Skill is compact, and the agent writes Node scripts that can visit any site. We mark it broad access because it pre-approves Bash for node and npm.
  • Chrome DevTools MCP adds seven skills for debugging performance, memory leaks and accessibility in a live Chrome. It runs through npx chrome-devtools-mcp@latest and collects Google usage statistics unless you pass --no-usage-statistics.
  • Firecrawl CLI fits when you want hosted scraping and accept that URLs and queries go to the Firecrawl API with a paid key.

Be careful with BrowserAct Skills: 103 skills with stealth browsers and CAPTCHA solving, and the real instructions come from a CLI installed from PyPI. It has broad access and terms of service risk.

For research workflows built on these tools, see research skills. For testing and code checks, see code review skills. The full list has all 14, and how we review explains the scores.