agent-browser 0.25.4 → 0.26.0

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package/README.md CHANGED
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  ### Tabs & Windows
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  ```bash
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- agent-browser tab # List tabs
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- agent-browser tab new [url] # New tab (optionally with URL)
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- agent-browser tab <n> # Switch to tab n
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- agent-browser tab close [n] # Close tab
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- agent-browser window new # New window
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+ agent-browser tab # List tabs (shows `tabId` and optional label)
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+ agent-browser tab new [url] # New tab (optionally with URL)
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+ agent-browser tab new --label docs [url] # New tab with a user-assigned label
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+ agent-browser tab <t<N>|label> # Switch to a tab by id or label
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+ agent-browser tab close [t<N>|label] # Close a tab (defaults to active)
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+ agent-browser window new # New window
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+ ```
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+ Tab ids are stable strings of the form `t1`, `t2`, `t3`. They're never reused
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+ within a session, so scripts and agents can keep referring to the same tab
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+ even after other tabs are opened or closed. Positional integers like `tab 2`
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+ are **not** accepted; the `t` prefix disambiguates handles from indices and
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+ mirrors the `@e1` convention used for element refs.
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+ You can also assign a memorable label (`docs`, `app`, `admin`) and use it
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+ interchangeably with the id. Labels are never auto-generated and never
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+ rewritten on navigation — they're yours to name and keep:
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+ ```bash
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+ agent-browser tab new --label docs https://docs.example.com
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+ agent-browser tab docs # switch to the docs tab
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+ agent-browser snapshot # populate refs for docs
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+ agent-browser click @e3 # click uses docs's refs
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+ agent-browser tab close docs # close by label
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  ```
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  ### Frames
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  agent-browser install # Download Chrome from Chrome for Testing (Google's official automation channel)
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  agent-browser install --with-deps # Also install system deps (Linux)
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  agent-browser upgrade # Upgrade agent-browser to the latest version
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+ agent-browser doctor # Diagnose the install and auto-clean stale daemon files
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+ agent-browser doctor --fix # Also run destructive repairs (reinstall Chrome, purge old state, ...)
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+ agent-browser doctor --offline --quick # Skip network probes and the live launch test
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  ```
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+ `doctor` checks your environment, Chrome install, daemon state, config files,
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+ encryption key, providers, network reachability, and runs a live headless
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+ browser launch test. Stale socket/pid sidecar files are auto-cleaned. Output
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+ is also available as `--json` for agents.
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  ### Skills
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  ```bash
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  All options from the table above can be set in the config file using camelCase keys (e.g., `--executable-path` becomes `"executablePath"`, `--proxy-bypass` becomes `"proxyBypass"`). Unknown keys are ignored for forward compatibility.
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+ A [JSON Schema](agent-browser.schema.json) is available for IDE autocomplete and validation. Add a `$schema` key to your config file to enable it:
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+ ```json
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+ "$schema": "https://agent-browser.dev/schema.json",
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+ "headed": true
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+ }
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+ ```
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  Boolean flags accept an optional `true`/`false` value to override config settings. For example, `--headed false` disables `"headed": true` from config. A bare `--headed` is equivalent to `--headed true`.
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  Auto-discovered config files that are missing are silently ignored. If `--config <path>` points to a missing or invalid file, agent-browser exits with an error. Extensions from user and project configs are merged (concatenated), not replaced.
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  npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-browser
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- This adds the skill to `.claude/skills/agent-browser/SKILL.md` in your project. The skill teaches Claude Code the full agent-browser workflow, including the snapshot-ref interaction pattern, session management, and timeout handling.
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+ This adds a thin discovery stub at `.claude/skills/agent-browser/SKILL.md`. The stub is intentionally minimal it points Claude Code at `agent-browser skills get core` to load the actual workflow content at runtime. This way the instructions always match the installed CLI version instead of going stale between releases.
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  ### AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md
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package/package.json CHANGED
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  {
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  "name": "agent-browser",
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- "version": "0.25.4",
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+ "version": "0.26.0",
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  "description": "Browser automation CLI for AI agents",
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  "type": "module",
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+ ---
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+ name: core
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+ description: Core agent-browser usage guide. Read this before running any agent-browser commands. Covers the snapshot-and-ref workflow, navigating pages, interacting with elements (click, fill, type, select), extracting text and data, taking screenshots, managing tabs, handling forms and auth, waiting for content, running multiple browser sessions in parallel, and troubleshooting common failures. Use when the user asks to interact with a website, fill a form, click something, extract data, take a screenshot, log into a site, test a web app, or automate any browser task.
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+ allowed-tools: Bash(agent-browser:*), Bash(npx agent-browser:*)
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+ ---
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+ # agent-browser core
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+ Fast browser automation CLI for AI agents. Chrome/Chromium via CDP, no
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+ Playwright or Puppeteer dependency. Accessibility-tree snapshots with compact
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+ `@eN` refs let agents interact with pages in ~200-400 tokens instead of
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+ parsing raw HTML.
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+ Most normal web tasks (navigate, read, click, fill, extract, screenshot) are
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+ covered here. Load a specialized skill when the task falls outside browser
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+ web pages — see [When to load another skill](#when-to-load-another-skill).
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+ ## The core loop
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+ ```bash
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+ agent-browser open <url> # 1. Open a page
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+ agent-browser snapshot -i # 2. See what's on it (interactive elements only)
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+ agent-browser click @e3 # 3. Act on refs from the snapshot
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+ agent-browser snapshot -i # 4. Re-snapshot after any page change
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+ ```
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+ Refs (`@e1`, `@e2`, ...) are assigned fresh on every snapshot. They become
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+ **stale the moment the page changes** — after clicks that navigate, form
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+ submits, dynamic re-renders, dialog opens. Always re-snapshot before your
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+ next ref interaction.
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+ ## Quickstart
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+ ```bash
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+ # Install once
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+ npm i -g agent-browser && agent-browser install
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+ # Take a screenshot of a page
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+ agent-browser open https://example.com
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+ agent-browser screenshot home.png
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+ agent-browser close
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+ # Search, click a result, and capture it
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+ agent-browser open https://duckduckgo.com
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+ agent-browser snapshot -i # find the search box ref
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+ agent-browser fill @e1 "agent-browser cli"
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+ agent-browser press Enter
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+ agent-browser wait --load networkidle
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+ agent-browser snapshot -i # refs now reflect results
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+ agent-browser click @e5 # click a result
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+ agent-browser screenshot result.png
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+ ```
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+ The browser stays running across commands so these feel like a single
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+ session. Use `agent-browser close` (or `close --all`) when you're done.
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+ ## Reading a page
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+ ```bash
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+ agent-browser snapshot # full tree (verbose)
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+ agent-browser snapshot -i # interactive elements only (preferred)
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+ agent-browser snapshot -i -u # include href urls on links
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+ agent-browser snapshot -i -c # compact (no empty structural nodes)
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+ agent-browser snapshot -i -d 3 # cap depth at 3 levels
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+ agent-browser snapshot -s "#main" # scope to a CSS selector
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+ agent-browser snapshot -i --json # machine-readable output
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+ ```
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+ Snapshot output looks like:
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+ ```
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+ Page: Example - Log in
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+ URL: https://example.com/login
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+ @e1 [heading] "Log in"
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+ @e2 [form]
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+ @e3 [input type="email"] placeholder="Email"
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+ @e4 [input type="password"] placeholder="Password"
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+ @e5 [button type="submit"] "Continue"
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+ @e6 [link] "Forgot password?"
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+ ```
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+ For unstructured reading (no refs needed):
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+ ```bash
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+ agent-browser get text @e1 # visible text of an element
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+ agent-browser get html @e1 # innerHTML
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+ agent-browser get attr @e1 href # any attribute
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+ agent-browser get value @e1 # input value
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+ agent-browser get title # page title
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+ agent-browser get url # current URL
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+ agent-browser get count ".item" # count matching elements
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+ ```
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+ ## Interacting
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+ ```bash
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+ agent-browser click @e1 # click
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+ agent-browser click @e1 --new-tab # open link in new tab instead of navigating
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+ agent-browser dblclick @e1 # double-click
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+ agent-browser hover @e1 # hover
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+ agent-browser focus @e1 # focus (useful before keyboard input)
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+ agent-browser fill @e2 "hello" # clear then type
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+ agent-browser type @e2 " world" # type without clearing
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+ agent-browser press Enter # press a key at current focus
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+ agent-browser press Control+a # key combination
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+ agent-browser check @e3 # check checkbox
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+ agent-browser uncheck @e3 # uncheck
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+ agent-browser select @e4 "option-value" # select dropdown option
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+ agent-browser select @e4 "a" "b" # select multiple
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+ agent-browser upload @e5 file1.pdf # upload file(s)
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+ agent-browser scroll down 500 # scroll page (up/down/left/right)
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+ agent-browser scrollintoview @e1 # scroll element into view
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+ agent-browser drag @e1 @e2 # drag and drop
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+ ```
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+ ### When refs don't work or you don't want to snapshot
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+ Use semantic locators:
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+ ```bash
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+ agent-browser find role button click --name "Submit"
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+ agent-browser find text "Sign In" click
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+ agent-browser find text "Sign In" click --exact # exact match only
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+ agent-browser find label "Email" fill "user@test.com"
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+ agent-browser find placeholder "Search" type "query"
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+ agent-browser find testid "submit-btn" click
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+ agent-browser find first ".card" click
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+ agent-browser find nth 2 ".card" hover
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+ ```
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+ Or a raw CSS selector:
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+ ```bash
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+ agent-browser fill "input[name=email]" "user@test.com"
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+ agent-browser click "button.primary"
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+ ```
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+ Rule of thumb: snapshot + `@eN` refs are fastest and most reliable for
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+ AI agents. `find role/text/label` is next best and doesn't require a prior
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+ snapshot. Raw CSS is a fallback when the others fail.
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+ ## Waiting (read this)
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+ Agents fail more often from bad waits than from bad selectors. Pick the
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+ right wait for the situation:
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+ ```bash
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+ agent-browser wait @e1 # until an element appears
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+ agent-browser wait 2000 # dumb wait, milliseconds (last resort)
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+ agent-browser wait --text "Success" # until the text appears on the page
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+ agent-browser wait --url "**/dashboard" # until URL matches pattern (glob)
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+ agent-browser wait --load networkidle # until network idle (post-navigation)
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+ agent-browser wait --load domcontentloaded # until DOMContentLoaded
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+ agent-browser wait --fn "window.myApp.ready === true" # until JS condition
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+ ```
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+ After any page-changing action, pick one:
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+ - Wait for a specific element you expect to appear: `wait @ref` or `wait --text "..."`.
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+ - Wait for URL change: `wait --url "**/new-page"`.
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+ - Wait for network idle (catch-all for SPA navigation): `wait --load networkidle`.
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+ Avoid bare `wait 2000` except when debugging — it makes scripts slow and
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+ flaky. Timeouts default to 25 seconds.
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+ ## Common workflows
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+ ### Log in
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+ ```bash
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+ agent-browser fill @e4 "hunter2"
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+ agent-browser snapshot -i
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+ ```
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+ Credentials in shell history are a leak. For anything sensitive, use the
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+ # (type password, Ctrl+D)
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+ ```
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+ ```
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+ # State is auto-saved and restored on subsequent runs with the same name.
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+ ```
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+ ### Extract data
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+ agent-browser get attr @e10 href
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+ cat <<'EOF' | agent-browser eval --stdin
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+ Array.from(rows).map(r => ({
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+ name: r.cells[0].innerText,
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+ price: r.cells[1].innerText,
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+ }));
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+ EOF
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+ ```
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+ Prefer `eval --stdin` (heredoc) or `eval -b <base64>` for any JS with
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+ quotes or special characters. Inline `agent-browser eval "..."` works
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+ only for simple expressions.
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+ ### Screenshot
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+ ```bash
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+ agent-browser screenshot page.png # specific path
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+ agent-browser screenshot --full full.png # full scroll height
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+ agent-browser screenshot --annotate map.png # numbered labels + legend keyed to snapshot refs
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+ ```
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+ `--annotate` is designed for multimodal models: each label `[N]` maps to ref `@eN`.
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+ ### Handle multiple pages via tabs
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+ agent-browser tab new https://docs... # open a new tab (and switch to it)
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+ agent-browser tab 2 # switch to tab 2
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+ agent-browser tab close 2 # close tab 2
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+ ```
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+ when other tabs open or close. After switching, refs from a prior snapshot
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+ on a different tab no longer apply — re-snapshot.
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+ ### Run multiple browsers in parallel
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+ Each `--session <name>` is an isolated browser with its own cookies, tabs,
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+ and refs. Useful for testing multi-user flows or parallel scraping:
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+ agent-browser --session b fill @e1 "bob@test.com"
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+ ```
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+ agent-browser network requests # inspect what fired
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+ agent-browser network har start # record all traffic
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+ ```
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+ ```
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+ codec options, GIF export, and more.
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+ ### Iframes
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+ ```
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+ ```
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+ ### Dialogs
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+ agent-browser dialog accept # accept
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+ agent-browser dialog accept "text" # accept with prompt input
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+ agent-browser dialog dismiss # cancel
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+ ```
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+ ## Diagnosing install issues
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+ agent-browser doctor --json # structured output for programmatic consumption
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+ ```
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+ Destructive actions require `--fix`. Exit code is `0` if all checks pass
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+ (warnings OK), `1` if any fail.
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+ ## Troubleshooting
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+ Page changed since the snapshot. Run `agent-browser snapshot -i` again,
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+ ```
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+ agent-browser keyboard type "text" # raw keystrokes, no selector
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+ ```
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+ **Page needs JS you can't get right in one shot**
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+ EOF
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+ ```
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+ skipped. Use `frame "#iframe"` to switch into them explicitly if the
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+ snapshot — fall back to `eval` in the iframe's origin or use the
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+ `--headers` flag to satisfy CORS.
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+ **Authentication expires mid-workflow**
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+ Use `--session-name <name>` or `state save`/`state load` so your session
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+ survives browser restarts. See [references/session-management.md](references/session-management.md)
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+ and [references/authentication.md](references/authentication.md).
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+ ## Global flags worth knowing
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+ ```bash
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+ --session <name> # isolated browser session
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+ --json # JSON output (for machine parsing)
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+ --headed # show the window (default is headless)
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+ --auto-connect # connect to an already-running Chrome
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+ --cdp <port> # connect to a specific CDP port
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+ --profile <name|path> # use a Chrome profile (login state survives)
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+ --headers <json> # HTTP headers scoped to the URL's origin
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+ --proxy <url> # proxy server
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+ --state <path> # load saved auth state from JSON
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+ --session-name <name> # auto-save/restore session state by name
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+ ```
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+ ## When to load another skill
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+ - **Electron desktop app** (VS Code, Slack desktop, Discord, Figma, etc.):
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+ `agent-browser skills get electron`
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+ - **Slack workspace automation**: `agent-browser skills get slack`
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+ - **Exploratory testing / QA / bug hunts**: `agent-browser skills get dogfood`
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+ - **Vercel Sandbox microVMs**: `agent-browser skills get vercel-sandbox`
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+ - **AWS Bedrock AgentCore cloud browser**: `agent-browser skills get agentcore`
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+ ## Full reference
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+ Everything covered here plus the complete command/flag/env listing:
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+ ```bash
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+ agent-browser skills get core --full
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+ ```
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+ That pulls in:
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+ - `references/commands.md` — every command, flag, alias
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+ - `references/snapshot-refs.md` — deep dive on the snapshot + ref model
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+ - `references/authentication.md` — auth vault, credential handling
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