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Browser automation skills for agent workflows

BrowserAct provides Skills that let an agent control a real browser, reuse login state, run parallel sessions, and hand off to a human when needed. The repo also includes Skill Forge for generating reusable scraping skills and docs for commands, concurrency, anti-blocking, and browser modes.

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Who it's for

Builders who want their agent to browse websites, extract data, and manage account-based workflows.

What it delivers

You can run browser tasks with less re-explaining, fewer blocks, and cleaner parallel sessions.

What it does

Real-browser automation

Commands for opening pages, reading state, clicking by index, and typing into fields from a local browser session.

Anti-blocking controls

Stealth fingerprints, TLS rotation, proxy switching, CAPTCHA solving, and protected-page extraction.

Remote human handoff

`remote-assist` creates a link so a person can take over in the browser and hand control back later.

Parallel session isolation

Independent cookies, fingerprints, proxies, and multi-session browser lanes so tasks do not cross-contaminate.

Skill discovery

`get-skills` returns browser state, browser list, and commands so the agent can discover what it can do.

Skill Forge

A separate skill pack that explores a site, generates a reusable scraping skill, and runs it again later.

How to get it

  1. 1Run
    # Extract protected page content (zero config)
    browser-act stealth-extract https://example.com
    
    # Full browser automation
    browser-act --session my-task browser open <id> https://example.com
    browser-act --session my-task state          # See clickable elements
    browser-act --session my-task click 3        # Click by index
    browser-act --session my-task input 2 "hi"   # Type into a field
  2. 2The agent runs get-skills at the start of each session — gets environment state, browser…
    browser-act get-skills core --skill-version 2.0.2

README


What can BrowserAct be used for?

BrowserAct enables AI agents and teams to perform real-browser automation, web data extraction, and account-based workflows.

It helps agents get past anti-bot walls, hand off to humans across platforms when stuck, run parallel tasks without cross-contamination, and isolate multiple accounts in independent browsers, backed by stealth fingerprints, TLS rotation, residential proxies, CAPTCHA solving, and stable fingerprint-proxy setups for authenticated sessions.

Two usage modes are available: fully cloud-managed execution, or local browser control driven by your own agent workflow.

Use BrowserAct in the cloud

No agent setup required, with lower operating cost. Describe the website, filters, and fields you need. BrowserAct builds and tests a reusable scraping Bot in a real cloud browser, then runs it from the cloud. Build once. Run reliably. Improve continuously.

BrowserAct Cloud extracts data from any website with one prompt at a lower cost per run

Start from BrowserAct Cloud →

Watch demo: Build a Web Scraper from One Prompt | BrowserAct →

Use BrowserAct locally with Skills

Use BrowserAct Skills when you want local browser control, local Chrome login-state reuse, or direct integration into your own AI agent workflow.

Your agent can load the BrowserAct Skill, discover browser state with get-skills, and run browser automation commands directly from your local environment.

Watch demo: BrowserAct: Give AI Agents a Real Browser →

Start from BrowserAct Skills →

Why BrowserAct

The browser an AI agent needs has to reach places standard tools can't, let a human seamlessly take over when the agent is stuck, keep parallel tasks from cross-contaminating, and be designed for LLM reasoning — not human-written scripts. A browser for agents must get four things right.

1. Break through blocks — three progressive layers

  1. Environment layer — stealth fingerprint spoofing, TLS rotation, proxy switching. The vast majority of blocks never trigger.
  2. Execution layersolve-captcha auto-solves CAPTCHAs; stealth-extract pulls protected pages in one command.
  3. Human layerremote-assist generates a live URL; the user takes over from any device, and the agent continues seamlessly when done.

2. Three browser modes — by real-world scenario

ModeScenarioKey trait
chromeReuse local Chrome login stateProfile import or CDP attach
stealth privacy modeFrictionless batch scraping without loginFresh fingerprint per session + proxy rotation, zero residue
stealth fixed identityLogged-in accounts · multi-browser parallelStable fingerprint + stable IP, stable account identity, not flagged as bots

3. Zero-interference concurrency — every agent in its own lane

  • Cross-browser parallel — independent cookies, fingerprints, proxies. Sites cannot correlate them.
  • Same-browser multi-session — shared login state, independent execution, tasks don't block each other.
  • Privacy mode — fresh fingerprint and empty profile per session, zero residue when done.

4. Designed for agent reasoning — not human scripts

  • Compact text output — indexed text format, several times more token-efficient than JSON or HTML.
  • Indexed interactionstate returns an indexed list; click 3 / input 2 "...". No DOM parsing required.
  • Semantic memory — every browser carries a desc, matched to tasks by meaning.
  • Concurrency-safe — session ownership + explicit naming. Multi-agent operation never conflicts.

Security: confirmation gating — sensitive operations (browser create / delete, Profile import, proxy changes, security and privacy toggles) require explicit user approval. Prior approvals do not carry over. Enforced at the Skill layer, not a configuration toggle.


And More

  • Better headless — Default headless without disrupting users; stealth headless that isn't detected.
  • Cross-platform remote handoff — Any device opens the link to take over, and the agent continues seamlessly.

Install

Tell your AI agent:

Install browser-act. Skill source: https://github.com/browser-act/skills/tree/main/browser-act . Verify it works after installation.

Installation details →


Quick Start

# Extract protected page content (zero config)
browser-act stealth-extract https://example.com

# Full browser automation
browser-act --session my-task browser open <id> https://example.com
browser-act --session my-task state          # See clickable elements
browser-act --session my-task click 3        # Click by index
browser-act --session my-task input 2 "hi"   # Type into a field

More examples and workflows →

The agent runs get-skills at the start of each session — gets environment state, browser list, and commands in one call:

browser-act get-skills core --skill-version 2.0.2

How agents discover and use BrowserAct →


Compatibility

OS: Windows, macOS, Linux

Agents: Claude Code · Cursor · VS Code · OpenCode · OpenClaw · Codex · Gemini CLI — works with any agent that can execute shell commands and load Skills.


What's Free

Almost everything is free. Only two features require payment: managed proxies (Dynamic / Static), and stealth browsers beyond the first 5.

FeatureFree
(No Signup)
Free
(Login Only)
Paid
Browser automation, Chrome / Chrome-direct
Stealth browser (≤ 5), stealth-extract, solve-captcha, remote-assist, privacy mode, Skill Forge
Stealth browser (> 5), Dynamic / Static proxy

Documentation

Full documentation covers anti-blocking, browser modes, sessions and concurrency, headless and remote handoff, agent design, the Skills system, and the complete command reference.

Read the full documentation →


Also From BrowserAct

Skill Forge — Your Personal Scraping Engineer

Need to extract data from the same website repeatedly at scale? Don't write scrapers by hand. Skill Forge explores a site once, discovers its APIs and data patterns, generates a deploy-ready Skill package, then runs reliably without re-exploration — 500 or 5,000 records through the same stable path.

Any website. Any data. One command to start:

Install browser-act-skill-forge. Skill source: https://github.com/browser-act/skills/tree/main/browser-act-skill-forge . Verify it works after installation.

Then tell your agent what you need:

"Forge a Skill that extracts job listings from LinkedIn — title, company, salary, URL. I'll run 300 keywords later."

Skill Forge documentation →

Solutions Catalog

30+ pre-built Skills already generated by Skill Forge, ready to install and run. Covers Amazon, Google Maps, YouTube, Reddit, WeChat, Zhihu, and more.

Browse the full Solutions Catalog →

Build Your Own

Can't find what you need above? Generate a custom Skill for any website in minutes — no coding required. Just describe what data you want or what action to perform, and Skill Forge handles the rest.


💖 Support the Project

BrowserAct Skills is free and open source. If it saves you time, please give us a ⭐ Star — it keeps the project alive and helps us ship more skills.

GitHub Stars

🎁 Bonus: Once you star the repository, you can join our Discord and post in the #claim-500-credits channel to receive 500 free credits!

🤝 Community & Support

Built with ❤️ by the BrowserAct Team

Files in the repo

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  • .github
  • assets
  • browser-act
  • browser-act-skill-forge
  • docs
  • solutions
  • .gitignore
  • LICENSE
  • README.md
  • requirements.txt

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