Skills

Agent Skills are modular capabilities that extend AI agents with domain-specific expertise. Skills package instructions, workflows, and best practices that agents can use automatically when relevant to your request. The Browserbase skills teach AI coding agents like Claude Code how to use Browserbase across four workflow styles:

interactive browser automation with the browse CLI
lightweight page fetching via the Browserbase Fetch API
Browserbase Functions deployment workflows
unified Browse CLI workflows for cloud APIs, templates, and skill installs

Skills work by providing structured guidance to AI agents, enabling them to perform complex browser automation tasks through natural language commands.

Key features

Browser automation

Create and run browser automations using the browse CLI with interactive sessions, snapshots, and screenshots

Debug and fix

Identify and correct broken CSS selectors and failing automations by exploring live pages

Authentication flows

Handle login flows for protected sites with guided authentication workflows

Fetch API

Retrieve page content, headers, and metadata. A fast and lightweight complement to browser sessions

Functions

Deploy browser agents as Browserbase Functions that run on a schedule or via webhook

Browse CLI

Use the unified browse CLI for browser automation, cloud resources, functions, templates, and skill installs

Recommended skills by use case

Browserbase recommends these skills for specific tasks. Each skill has a dedicated guide with setup instructions, example prompts, and expected results:

Cookie sync: reuse local Chrome cookies in a Browserbase context for authenticated browsing.
Browser trace: debug browser runs with network events, screenshots, and DOM snapshots.
Browser to API: generate an OpenAPI document from captured browser traffic.
Fetch: retrieve HTML or JSON when you don’t need page interaction.
UI test: test UI changes or explore an app for bugs in a real browser.

Installation

Browse CLI
Vercel Skills CLI
Claude Code plugins
OpenClaw / ClawHub

The published browse package includes its own skill, so you can install both from the CLI:

Install the CLI

npm install -g browse

Install the bundled skill

browse skills install

Run browse skills show to print the bundled skill’s current workflows and command guidance.

The Vercel Skills CLI provides a simple way to install skills across multiple AI coding agents including Claude Code, Cursor, and others.

Install the skill

Run one of the following commands depending on the skill you want:

npx skills add browserbase/skills --skill browser
npx skills add browserbase/skills --skill fetch
npx skills add browserbase/skills --skill functions

The CLI will prompt you to select your agent and confirm installation.

Install the CLI when required

The browser and functions skills use the browse CLI. The standalone fetch skill calls the Fetch API directly and does not require the CLI.

npm install -g browse

Install the Browserbase skill directly from the Claude Code plugin marketplace.

Add the Browserbase marketplace

claude plugin marketplace add browserbase/skills

Install the plugin you want

claude plugin install browse@browserbase --scope local
claude plugin install functions@browserbase --scope local

For standalone Fetch guidance, use the Vercel Skills CLI tab. The published CLI also exposes Fetch directly through browse cloud fetch <url>.

Install the CLI

npm install -g browse

If you use OpenClaw, you can install the Browserbase browser skill from ClawHub:

Install the skill from ClawHub

clawhub install browse

Set up Browserbase credentials

Configure your API key for remote browser sessions. Browserbase infers the Project ID from your API key.

openclaw browserbase setup

This stores credentials in ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json and automatically bridges them to the browse CLI.

Install the browse CLI

npm install -g browse

Remote browser sessions and cloud API commands require BROWSERBASE_API_KEY. Local browser workflows do not.

Try it out

Once installed, you can use the skill with your AI coding agent. Try these example commands:

Explore a website

Ask your agent to explore a website and understand its structure:

Use the browse skill to explore https://news.ycombinator.com and identify the selectors for story titles and scores

Run Browse CLI workflows

Ask your agent to use the Browse CLI directly:

Use the browse CLI skill to open https://news.ycombinator.com, take a snapshot, and identify the selector for each story title

Browse CLI skill

Install and use the browse CLI with Claude Code, Vercel Skills CLI, and Browse.sh

Skills repository

View source, report issues, and contribute

Integrations

Key features

Browser automation

Debug and fix

Authentication flows

Fetch API

Functions

Browse CLI

Recommended skills by use case

Installation

Try it out

Explore a website

Run Browse CLI workflows

Further reading

Browse CLI skill

Skills repository

​Key features

Browser automation

Debug and fix

Authentication flows

Fetch API

Functions

Browse CLI

​Recommended skills by use case

​Installation

​Try it out

​Explore a website

​Run Browse CLI workflows

​Further reading

Browse CLI skill

Skills repository

Key features

Recommended skills by use case

Installation

Try it out

Explore a website

Run Browse CLI workflows

Further reading