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  6. package/dist/builtin/subagents/skills/agent-desktop/SKILL.md +83 -0
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- # Browser automation
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- Use this guide for page content in Chromium-family browsers and Electron.
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- Browser chrome, permission prompts, downloads, file pickers, and unsupported
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- engines remain native windows: inspect and operate them with
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- `get_window_state` and the native action loop in [WORKFLOW.md](WORKFLOW.md).
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-
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- ## Choose the page-aware route first
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- Use this route only when the user's requested interaction method permits
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- page-aware automation. GUI-only/native-input tasks stay on the native window
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- or authorized desktop loop, even for Electron applications.
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- For supported page content, prefer the typed browser tools over the legacy
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- `page` tool, accessibility guesses, omnibox shortcuts, or raw pixels. The
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- typed route binds an exact native `(pid, window_id)` to a browser target and
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- mints session-scoped tab and element capabilities.
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- The canonical loop is:
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-
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- ```text
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- start_session(session?) # optional; can name before acting
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- list_windows or launch_app
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- get_browser_state(pid, window_id, session?) # bind
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- get_browser_state(target_id, tab_id, session?,
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- snapshot_format=semantic_v2) # snapshot
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- browser_navigate / browser_click / browser_type / browser_pointer
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- browser_dialog / browser_set_input_files / browser_download
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- get_browser_state(target_id, tab_id, session?,
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- snapshot_format=semantic_v2) # verify and refresh refs
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- end_session(session?) # optional cleanup
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- ```
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- For a multi-call browser workflow, prefer a short `session` label and pass the
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- same value on every call that accepts it. Passing it once is not sticky; a later
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- omitted value uses the transport's implicit session. One long-lived MCP or SDK
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- transport may omit `session` for one-off or deliberately unlabeled work; its
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- first admitted call creates one implicit session and later unnamed calls reuse
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- it. Use one persistent MCP connection for preparation, binding, actions, and
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- cleanup; see [RUNTIME.md](RUNTIME.md). Anonymous one-shot CLI calls use disposable transports. Never substitute a raw
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- CDP target id, tab ordinal, URL match, or remembered ref for a capability
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- returned by `get_browser_state`.
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- ### Copy page content to the system clipboard
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- If the requested outcome is exact page content on the system clipboard (not a
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- snapshot, call `clipboard_write` with the exact observed value, and verify it
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- with `clipboard_read`. This path is background-safe and does not require a
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- clickable ref: passive headings and text nodes are evidence sources, not
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- controls that must be clicked before their value can be copied.
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- Fall back to visual text selection and the platform copy hotkey only when the
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- user explicitly requires that gesture or clipboard tools are unavailable.
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- That fallback is native input, not a typed page mutation, and may require the
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- foreground escalation rules in [RUNTIME.md](RUNTIME.md#foreground-boundary).
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- ### Browser recording feedback
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- On macOS and Windows, ref- and coordinate-targeted browser mutations drive the
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- same session-scoped agent cursor overlay as native window actions.
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- `browser_click` and click-like pointer actions glide to the live page target
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- and pulse; `browser_type` glides to and pulses the editable target; hover and
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- scroll glide without a click pulse. This feedback is visual-only: it never
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- moves the user's physical pointer, changes focus or z-order, or substitutes for
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- CDP delivery.
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- The driver rechecks the live page visibility over CDP before every visual
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- action. An unselected tab remains fully addressable, but its session cursor is
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- hidden. When the selected tab acts, its cursor becomes the only browser-session
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- cursor shown for that native window. Use one declared session per tab when a
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- recording should give tabs stable, distinct cursor colors.
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- The overlay is emitted only when the page point can be mapped safely into the
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- exact bound native window. In particular, unprovable child-frame coordinates
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- are skipped rather than drawn in the wrong place. `browser_navigate` has no
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- page target, so it intentionally does not invent cursor motion; use a textual
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- recording overlay to explain navigation in a public demo.
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- ## 1. Select an exact native window
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- The examples below show tool names and JSON arguments for calls on the same
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- persistent MCP connection. They are not separate shell commands. Replace all
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- Start or discover the app with the native tools and select one returned
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- `window_id`:
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- ```text
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- A heuristic title match is read-only. Same-bounds windows, stale native
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- explicit preparation flow. For the user's running Chrome, Edge or Brave the
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- refusal's `detail.next_call` is the exact `browser_prepare` call to make next
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- ```text
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- acknowledgement. `allow_launch: true` states that this call may create the
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- | Chrome / Edge on macOS | Exact binding, refs, navigation, typing, explicit DOM click | Trusted standalone click refuses to preserve background posture |
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- | Chrome / Chromium on Linux X11 | Exact binding, refs, navigation, typing, explicit DOM click | Trusted standalone click refuses to preserve background posture |
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- | Electron | Exact single-page routes where endpoint and host relationship are proven | Do not infer support for arbitrary embedded webviews |
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- | Safari / Firefox | Native window state only | Typed page mutation is not supported yet |
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- | WebView2 / Tauri / other embedded webviews | Native AX/PX fallback unless an exact route is reported | Host/renderer correlation may refuse |
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- ## Recovery rules
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- `next_action: browser_prepare`, run that explicit operation for the exact pid
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- - `browser_binding_ambiguous` or heuristic binding: resolve the native-window
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- - `browser_ref_stale`: snapshot again and use a new ref.
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