* Add `agent-browser skills` command
Adds a `skills` CLI command that serves bundled skill content at runtime,
always matching the installed CLI version. This solves the problem of
agents relying on stale cached SKILL.md files after CLI upgrades.
The `npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-browser` flow now installs a single
thin discovery skill with trigger words for all use cases (browser
automation, dogfooding, Electron apps, Slack, etc.) that directs agents
to `agent-browser skills get <name>` for current instructions. The other
five skills (dogfood, electron, slack, vercel-sandbox, agentcore) are
marked `metadata.internal: true` so they are not installed by default but
remain accessible via the CLI command.
Subcommands:
skills [list] List available skills
skills get <name> [--full] Get skill content (with optional references)
skills get --all Get all skill content
skills path [name] Print skill directory path
* Fix skills command robustness: UTF-8 safety, flag handling, path output
- Make truncate_description UTF-8-safe using char_indices() instead of
byte-indexed slicing that panics on multi-byte codepoints
- Pass get_all as a bool parameter to run_get instead of embedding
--all as a sentinel string in the names list
- Canonicalize skills_dir path so `skills path` output is clean
- Warn on unrecognized flags in `skills get` instead of silently
ignoring them
* Add evals framework and strengthen SKILL.md for better agent compliance
Strengthen SKILL.md loading instructions to require `skills get` before
running commands, and trim skill descriptions to prevent agents from
guessing at command syntax. Add TypeScript/Bun eval framework that tests
skill-loading, skill-selection, and command-usage via Claude CLI with
Vercel AI Gateway. Evals pass 20/20 (100%), up from 85% baseline.
* Fix formatting in skills.rs
* Add Codex provider to evals framework
Add multi-provider support with a shared Provider interface. Codex
provider spawns `codex exec --json`, parses JSONL output, and writes
~/.codex/config.toml for AI Gateway routing. Use `--provider codex`
to run evals with Codex (default model: openai/o3). First run scores
19/20 (95%) with 100% on skill-loading and skill-selection.
* Use scoped temp dir for Codex config instead of overwriting ~/.codex
* fetch GitHub star count dynamically in docs header
Replace the hardcoded "27k" star count with a live fetch from the
GitHub API, revalidated every 24 hours via Next.js fetch caching.
Gracefully hides the count if the API is unreachable.
* remove GITHUB_TOKEN usage from star count fetch
* v0.24.1
* fix: e2e test failures on CI
- e2e_relaunch_on_options_change: use headless for all launches;
the third launch only changes extensions, which is sufficient to
trigger the relaunch hash mismatch without needing an X display
- e2e_auth_login flake: reduce SPA render delay from 1200ms to 800ms
to add headroom within the 5s preferred selector window on slower
CI runners
* feat(chrome): add Chrome profile name resolution and copy for --profile flag
When --profile receives a name without path separators (e.g., "Default"),
it now resolves the name against installed Chrome profiles, copies the
profile to a temp directory (excluding large cache dirs), and launches
Chrome with the copied profile to reuse login state.
Key changes:
- Add profile resolution: is_chrome_profile_name, find_chrome_user_data_dir,
list_chrome_profiles, resolve_chrome_profile (3-tier matching)
- Add copy_chrome_profile with best-effort copy and exclusion list
- Wire preprocessing into launch_chrome before retry loop
- Add use_real_keychain field to LaunchOptions for conditional keychain flags
- Make --password-store=basic and --use-mock-keychain conditional
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(cli): add `profiles` command to list available Chrome profiles
Adds `agent-browser profiles` command that reads Chrome's Local State
file to list available profiles with directory names and display names.
Supports --json output. Added help text in print_command_help and
print_help.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: add Chrome profile reuse documentation across all locations
Update all 5 documentation locations per AGENTS.md:
- output.rs: updated --profile help text and examples
- README.md: added Chrome Profile Reuse section, updated options table
- SKILL.md: added profile reuse as Option 2
- docs/src/app/sessions/page.mdx: added Chrome profile reuse section
- chrome.rs: added doc comments to get_chrome_user_data_dirs
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* style: fix formatting and clippy warning in chrome.rs
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* refactor: simplify profile resolution and launch integration
- Only clone LaunchOptions when profile name requires resolution
(avoids unnecessary allocation on every Chrome launch)
- Remove redundant is_file() check before copy of Local State
(copy() handles missing files naturally)
- Extract format_profile_list() to deduplicate error formatting
- Remove unnecessary section comments in tests
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* refactor(tests): use RAII TempDir guard for test cleanup
Replace manual remove_dir_all calls with a TempDir struct that
auto-cleans on drop, preventing temp dir leaks on test panics.
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Add provider icons and session creation from the dashboard UI.
Sessions can now be created with cloud providers (Browserbase,
Browserless, Browser Use, Kernel) in addition to local engines.
CLI changes:
- Track provider via .provider files alongside .engine files
- Add WaitUntil::None variant to skip lifecycle event waits for providers
- Auto-set waitUntil=none when --provider is used with navigate
- Fix Browser Use: use direct WSS connection (wss://connect.browser-use.com)
- Add connect_cdp_direct for providers with page-level CDP proxies
- Fix resolve_cdp_url to convert https:// provider URLs to wss://
- Treat empty CDP session_id as None (omit from protocol messages)
- Fix Browserbase: send explicit JSON body + Content-Type header
- Increase CDP connect timeout to 25s for remote providers
- Clean up .provider files on session close
Dashboard changes:
- Show provider or engine icon per session in sidebar
- New session dialog with unified engine/provider selector grid
- Async session creation with loading state and error display
- Kill zombie daemons on provider connection failure
- Parse CLI JSON error output for user-friendly messages
- Default new session URL to https://agent-browser.dev
* Add auto-dismissal for alert and beforeunload dialogs
This PR adds automatic handling of JavaScript dialogs to prevent the agent from blocking indefinitely when `alert()` or `beforeunload` dialogs appear on web pages.
## Summary
Previously, when a website displayed native browser confirmation dialogs (like alerts or "Are you sure you want to leave?" prompts), agent-browser would hang waiting for manual intervention. This is a common issue since many websites use these dialogs for notifications or navigation warnings.
## Changes Made
- **Auto-dismiss functionality**: Added a background task that automatically accepts `alert` and `beforeunload` dialogs while leaving `confirm` and `prompt` dialogs for explicit handling
- **New flag**: Added `--no-auto-dialog` flag to disable automatic handling when needed
- **Environment variable**: Added `AGENT_BROWSER_NO_AUTO_DIALOG` for configuration
- **Documentation**: Updated README and docs with usage examples and configuration details
- **Tests**: Added comprehensive test coverage for flag parsing and dialog handling logic
## Implementation Details
- Only `alert` (notification-only) and `beforeunload` (navigation warning) dialogs are auto-handled for safety
- `confirm` and `prompt` dialogs still require explicit `dialog accept/dismiss` commands to ensure agents make deliberate choices for destructive actions
- The feature is enabled by default since these dialog types rarely require user decision-making
- Uses Chrome DevTools Protocol's `Page.handleJavaScriptDialog` for reliable dialog dismissal
Fixes#1070
* Log dialog type and message before auto-dismissal
Without this, auto-dismissed alert/beforeunload dialogs are silently
swallowed and the agent has no way to see what the dialog said. Adding
an eprintln before the CDP call makes the dismissal visible in stderr
for debugging.
* Log dialog dismissal errors instead of silently discarding them
- Remove premature "accepted" from log message since it fires before
the CDP command executes
- Replace `let _ =` with `if let Err(e)` to log failures when
Page.handleJavaScriptDialog fails
- Apply rustfmt to auto-dialog tests
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* dashboard
* fix: re-apply download behavior on recording context (#1019)
* fix: re-apply download behavior on recording context
record start creates a new browser context via Target.createBrowserContext.
Browser.setDownloadBehavior called at launch only applies to the default
context, so downloads in the recording context are silently dropped.
Fix:
1. Store download_path on BrowserManager (from LaunchOptions)
2. After creating the recording context, call Browser.setDownloadBehavior
with the new browserContextId
This ensures downloads work during recording.
Fixes#1018
* fix: add download_path to third BrowserManager constructor (auto_connect_cdp)
* fix: reap zombie Chrome process and fast-detect crash for auto-restart (#1023)
When Chrome crashes (e.g. SIGTRAP from CHECK() assertion), the daemon
now:
1. Reaps the zombie immediately via a SIGCHLD handler in the event loop
that calls waitpid(-1, WNOHANG)
2. Detects the crash instantly on the next command via a non-blocking
try_wait() check (has_process_exited), avoiding the 3-second CDP
timeout that is_connection_alive() would incur
3. Auto-relaunches Chrome transparently for the caller
Fixes#1017
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* fix: route keyboard type through text input (#1014)
* fix: handle --clear flag in console command (#1015)
The console and errors commands parsed --clear from CLI args but the
action handlers silently ignored the flag. The handlers did not accept
the cmd parameter so they had no way to read the clear field.
Changes:
- Add clear_console() method to EventTracker in network.rs
- Update handle_console to accept cmd, read the clear field, and clear
the buffer when --clear is passed (returns {cleared: true})
- Update call site in execute_command to pass cmd
Co-authored-by: xuyongliang <yongliang.xyl@alibaba-inc.com>
* chore: patch release - ### Bug Fixes
- **Re-apply download behavior on r... (#1025)
* Add runtime stream enable/disable/status commands (#951)
* Add runtime stream management commands
* Run rustfmt and satisfy clippy
* Fix stream disable cleanup semantics
* Format stream disable regression tests
* fix: retain radio/checkbox elements in compact snapshot tree (#1008)
compact_tree() checked for "[ref=" to identify lines worth keeping, but
radio and checkbox elements render as e.g. [checked=false, ref=e1] where
the "[" opens before "checked=", not "ref=". Dropping the leading bracket
so the check is just "ref=" fixes the match for all elements with refs.
Fixes#1006
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* chore: version packages (#1027)
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* fixes
* dashboard
* fixes
* remove observe
* fmt
* fixes
* fixes
* jotai
* fmt
* upload dashboard
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Fixes#992
When a JavaScript dialog (alert/confirm/prompt) blocks the page, agents
had no way to detect it — all commands just timed out with generic errors.
- Add `dialog status` command to check for pending dialogs
- Track dialog state via CDP Page.javascriptDialogOpening/Closed events
- Auto-inject `warning` field into all command responses when a dialog is
pending, so agents can distinguish dialog-blocked timeouts from other issues
- Document dialog commands in SKILL.md (was missing entirely), README.md,
docs site, and --help output
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* feat: add network request detail and filtering for request tracking
- Add `network request <requestId>` command to view full request/response
details including response body via CDP Network.getResponseBody
- Add --type, --method, --status filter flags to `network requests`
- --type: comma-separated resource types (xhr,fetch,document)
- --method: filter by HTTP method
- --status: supports exact (200), class (2xx), range (400-499)
- Extend TrackedRequest with request_id, post_data, status,
response_headers, mime_type fields
- Update Network.responseReceived handler to also populate
tracked_requests (previously only updated HAR entries)
- Add tests for parse commands and matches_status_filter
- Update README, SKILL.md, docs, and help text
Closes#932
* fix: show request ID and status in network requests output
* fix: add ref for cursor-interactive content roles
* fix: format
* feat: always include cursor-interactive elements in snapshot, -C is deprecated
* feat: process StaticText aggregation and deduplication
* update test
* clean up
* fix: escape text of elements in snapshot
* fix: redundant slicing
* fix: cargo fmt
* feat: deduplicate redundant StaticText
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Navigate with load, then wait for username/password/submit selectors using the default action timeout. This avoids networkidle hangs on pages with continuous background requests.
Add dedicated documentation pages for each cloud browser provider:
Browser Use, Browserbase, Browserless, and Kernel (sorted
alphabetically). Uses providers/ path per maintainer feedback.
- Fix Kernel defaults to match source code (KERNEL_HEADLESS=true,
KERNEL_STEALTH=false) — README had these inverted
- Add Providers section to sidebar navigation
- Simplify cdp-mode cloud providers section to link to new pages
Fixes part of #774
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The codebase only has CDP launchers for Chrome and Lightpanda
(cdp/chrome.rs, cdp/lightpanda.rs). Firefox and WebKit have no
launcher and are not supported.
Fixes part of #774
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move JS metadata exports out of page.mdx files into per-directory
layout.tsx files. MDX files now contain pure markdown content, making
them render cleanly on GitHub without visible JS import/export lines.
No content changes — only the metadata mechanism is relocated.
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Adds a new `agent-browser upgrade` command that automatically detects the installation method (npm, Homebrew, or Cargo) and runs the appropriate update command.
**Changes:**
- Added new `upgrade.rs` module with upgrade logic
- Updated `main.rs` to handle the `upgrade` command
- Added upgrade help text in `output.rs`
- Updated README.md and documentation with upgrade instructions
- Updated SKILL.md to mention the upgrade command
**Implementation details:**
- Fetches latest version from npm registry to show version diff
- Auto-detects installation method by checking Homebrew, Cargo paths, and npm global packages
- Provides fallback instructions if installation method cannot be determined
- Uses existing color module for consistent styled output
- Gracefully handles network failures and continues with upgrade
Fixes#895
* Add iframe support for CLI interactions and snapshots
This PR adds comprehensive iframe support to the agent browser CLI, allowing users to interact with elements inside iframes seamlessly.
## Problem
Users couldn't interact with elements inside iframes via the command line. The existing `frame` command was non-functional as it set `active_frame_id` but no other code read this value.
## Changes Made
### Enhanced Frame Context Tracking
- Added `frame_id` field to `RefEntry` to track which frame each element reference belongs to
- Updated `RefMap::add` and related methods to accept and store frame context
- Modified element resolution functions to use frame context from ref entries
### Improved Frame Command
- Fixed the existing `frame` command to actually work by threading `active_frame_id` through snapshot operations
- Added support for iframe element references (e.g., `frame @e2`) in addition to CSS selectors
- Enhanced frame detection to work with both named frames and iframe elements
### Updated Snapshot Behavior
- Modified `take_snapshot` to accept optional frame context parameter
- Updated all snapshot call sites to pass appropriate frame context
- Maintained backward compatibility while enabling frame-scoped operations
### Element Resolution Updates
- Updated `resolve_element_center` and `resolve_element_object_id` to use frame context from ref entries
- Modified `find_node_id_by_role_name` to support frame-specific element lookup
- Ensured all interaction functions work correctly within iframe contexts
## Implementation Details
- Frame context is now properly propagated through the entire element interaction pipeline
- The `frame` command can accept both CSS selectors and element references
- All existing functionality remains intact while adding iframe capabilities
- Added `Iframe` to interactive roles for better element discovery
Fixes#863
* docs: add iframe support documentation
Document the new iframe capabilities across all documentation surfaces:
- Auto-inlining of iframe content in snapshots
- Direct interaction with iframe element refs
- frame command support for element refs (@e3)
- Scoped snapshots via frame switching
* fix: pass active frame context to diff snapshots and fix nameless iframe lookup
- handle_diff_snapshot now respects active_frame_id instead of always
passing None, so diff snapshots work correctly inside iframes
- Nameless/id-less iframes now fall back to src URL (or null) instead of
the literal string 'frame' which never matched any frame in the tree
* fix: resolve iframe frame ID via DOM.describeNode and reduce code duplication
- handle_frame: Use DOM.describeNode + contentDocument.frameId to resolve
iframe frame IDs directly, fixing failures for nameless iframes that
lack name/id/src attributes
- element.rs: Deduplicate add() by delegating to add_with_frame()
- snapshot.rs: Guard against out-of-bounds insert_str when iframe marker
is on the last line without a trailing newline
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Expose HAR recording as a CLI subcommand under the existing `network`
command so users can capture and export network traffic without a
separate tool or opening the browser twice.
- Parse `network har start` and `network har stop [path]` in commands.rs
- Enrich HarEntry with request/response headers, timestamps, status text,
resource type, HTTP version, and body sizes from CDP events
- Produce HAR 1.2 output with creator/browser metadata, query strings,
and proper header arrays compatible with Chrome DevTools HAR viewer
- Auto-generate output path under ~/.agent-browser/tmp/har/ when omitted
- Add har_stop to skip_launch list so export works without a live browser
- Update help text, README, docs site, SKILL.md, and security policy docs
- Add unit tests for parsing, HAR entry serialization, and stop behavior
* feat: add screenshot output config, clipboard CLI commands, and fix wait --text native path
## Summary
- Add `--screenshot-dir`, `--screenshot-quality`, and `--screenshot-format` CLI flags (with corresponding `AGENT_BROWSER_SCREENSHOT_DIR`, `AGENT_BROWSER_SCREENSHOT_QUALITY`, `AGENT_BROWSER_SCREENSHOT_FORMAT` env vars) so users can configure where and how screenshots are saved without specifying a full path every time
- Add `clipboard read`, `clipboard write <text>`, `clipboard copy`, and `clipboard paste` CLI commands, exposing the existing protocol-level clipboard handlers that were previously only accessible via JSON-RPC
- Fix `wait --text` in native mode: the CLI was emitting `selector: "text=..."` (a Playwright-style locator) which native's `querySelector` can't handle. Now emits a `text` field that correctly hits the native `wait_for_text` polling path
- Add native clipboard `copy` and `paste` support via CDP `Input.dispatchKeyEvent`, and a `write` operation to the Node.js handler
* fix: resolve CI failures in Rust formatting and TypeScript typecheck
Use string-based page.evaluate for clipboard writeText to avoid
referencing `navigator` in Node.js compilation context. Run cargo fmt
to fix formatting in commands.rs and screenshot.rs.
* fix: clipboard write captures full multi-word text
Use rest[1..].join(" ") instead of rest.get(1) so unquoted multi-word
input like `clipboard write hello world` sends the full string rather
than silently dropping everything after the first word.
* improvements
* fixes
* improvements
* improvements
* feat: Add browserless as a hosted option + boolean env-parsing utility
* Add ensureDomainFilter, sanitizeExistingPage and move parseBooleanParam
* Add docs in relevant places, fix utils, rename of API env var
* Update readme
* Fix env variable name in readme
* Cleanup session stop urls when errors happen
* Fix browserlessStopUrl not being assigned in happy path
* Remove BROWSERBASE_PROJECT_ID requirement
The Browserbase API no longer requires a project ID to create sessions —
it is inferred from the API key. Remove the env var requirement from both
the TypeScript daemon and Rust CLI, and update docs accordingly.
* Remove unnecessary Content-Type header since no body is sent
Updates the skills documentation to include the missing `vercel-sandbox` skill that was missing from both the available skills list and installation commands.
## Changes
- Added `vercel-sandbox` skill to the Available Skills list with description
- Added installation command for `vercel-sandbox` skill
- Added dedicated section for `vercel-sandbox` with key features and usage details
- Removed duplicate paragraph in the electron section
The `vercel-sandbox` skill enables running agent-browser + headless Chrome inside ephemeral Vercel Sandbox microVMs with features like snapshot startup, persistent workflows, and automatic OIDC authentication.
Fixes#712
Chris Tate