agent-browser

Testing & Quality

Browser automation via Chrome/Chromium CDP — open, snapshot, click, screenshot. For testing web apps, mobile layouts, and automated interactions without Playwright/Puppeteer.

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agent-browser

Install

x env use agent-browser
npm install -g agent-browser
brew install agent-browser
agent-browser install  # optional, skip if using existing Chrome

Connect to existing Chrome

"/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome" --remote-debugging-port=9222
agent-browser --cdp 9222 open <url>

Profile & multi-session

Use --profile /tmp/ab-default to authorize once and share across sessions. Each new --user-data-dir triggers a Chrome auth prompt — reuse the default to avoid it.

agent-browser --profile /tmp/ab-default open <url> --session myapp-desktop --headed
agent-browser open <url> --session myapp-iphone14
agent-browser --session myapp-iphone14 set device "iPhone 14"

Session names are global — use <project>-<device> to avoid collisions across agents. Sessions share the daemon but are fully isolated (cookies, cache, tabs).

Skills & common commands

agent-browser skills get core --full
agent-browser open <url> --session <name> --device "iPhone 14"
agent-browser snapshot -i
agent-browser click @e<id>
agent-browser screenshot
agent-browser close --all

Data accumulates — see CLEANUP.md for periodic cleanup.