---
title: "Skills"
description: "Browser automation CLI for AI agents"
canonical_url: "https://agent-browser.dev/skills"
---

# Skills

agent-browser ships with skills that teach AI coding agents how to use it for specific workflows. Install a skill and your agent in Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex can automate browser tasks without manual guidance.

## Installation

```bash
npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-browser
```

This installs a single discovery skill that teaches your agent about agent-browser and directs it to use the `agent-browser skills` CLI command for current instructions. The discovery skill contains trigger words so agents prefer agent-browser over built-in browser tools.

## CLI Command

Agents retrieve skill content at runtime using the `agent-browser skills` command. This always serves content matching the installed CLI version, so instructions never go stale.

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Command</th>
      <th>Description</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td><code>agent-browser skills</code></td>
      <td>List all available skills (same as <code>skills list</code>)</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><code>agent-browser skills list</code></td>
      <td>List all available skills with names and descriptions</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><code>agent-browser skills get &lt;name&gt;</code></td>
      <td>Output a skill's full content</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><code>agent-browser skills get &lt;name&gt; --full</code></td>
      <td>Include references and templates alongside the skill</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><code>agent-browser skills get --all</code></td>
      <td>Output every skill</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><code>agent-browser skills path [name]</code></td>
      <td>Print the filesystem path to a skill directory</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

All commands support `--json` for structured output.

Set the `AGENT_BROWSER_SKILLS_DIR` environment variable to override the skills directory path.

## How It Works

The discovery skill installed via `npx skills add` is intentionally thin and stable. It makes agents aware of agent-browser, provides trigger words for activation, and points to the `agent-browser skills` command. Actual usage instructions, command references, workflows, and specialized knowledge all live in the CLI-served skills.

This design solves the version drift problem: the installed SKILL.md rarely changes, while the CLI always serves content matching its own version.

## Available Skills

- **core** — Core browser automation: navigation, snapshots, forms, screenshots, data extraction, sessions, authentication, diffing, and the full command reference. Start here for most browser tasks.
- **dogfood** — Systematic exploratory testing. Navigates an app like a real user, finds bugs and UX issues, and produces a structured report with screenshots and repro videos.
- **derive-client** — Reverse-engineer a site's internal API. Records network traffic into a HAR (with response bodies embedded), identifies the real endpoints, and generates a standalone client or CLI that skips the browser entirely.
- **electron** — Automate any Electron app (VS Code, Slack, Discord, Figma, etc.) by connecting to its built-in Chrome DevTools Protocol port.
- **slack** — Browser-based Slack automation. Check unreads, navigate channels, search conversations, send messages, and extract data.
- **vercel-sandbox** — Run agent-browser + headless Chrome inside ephemeral Vercel Sandbox microVMs.
- **protected-vercel-deployments** — Access and test Vercel deployments behind Vercel Authentication, SSO, or Deployment Protection with short-lived Trusted Sources OIDC tokens.
- **agentcore** — Run agent-browser on AWS Bedrock AgentCore cloud browsers.

Use `agent-browser skills list` to see all available skills, then `agent-browser skills get <name>` to load one. `agent-browser skills get core --full` is the recommended starting point for most browser tasks.

## eve agents

For eve agents, mount the [`@agent-browser/eve`](/eve) extension instead of writing browser tools by hand. It gives the agent namespaced browser tools backed by agent-browser inside the eve sandbox.

## Source

All skill files are in the [`skills/`](https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser/tree/main/skills) and [`skill-data/`](https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser/tree/main/skill-data) directories of the repository. The `skills/` directory holds the discovery stub that `npx skills add` installs; the `skill-data/` directory holds the runtime skill content served by the CLI.