# SawyerHood/dev-browser

A Claude Skill to give your agent the ability to use a web browser

Repository: https://github.com/SawyerHood/dev-browser
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dev-browser
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: claude-code, playwright, skills
Last push: 2026-07-15T01:30:01+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 78/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 93, longevity 19
- inputs: {"age_days": 274, "days_push": 50, "days_rel": 50, "gap_med": 3, "n_releases_24m": 10}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6560, forks 431 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:45.193265+00:00)

## What it is
A CLI tool that lets AI agents and developers control a browser by running sandboxed JavaScript scripts against a full Playwright API. It ships as a Claude/Codex skill so agents can browse, click, fill, and screenshot pages with persistent page state.

## Use cases
- let my AI agent browse the web and interact with pages
- scrape data from websites via scripted browser automation
- automate form filling and clicking on web pages
- take screenshots of web pages from the command line
- connect to my running Chrome session and inspect tabs
- give Claude Code a browser skill

## When to choose
- you want an agent-friendly browser automation CLI with sandboxed script execution
- you need Playwright's API without writing a full Node project
- you want persistent browser pages across multiple script invocations

## When to avoid
- you need high-performance parallel scraping at scale
- you need a GUI-based record-and-replay automation tool
- you need to automate browsers other than Chrome/Chromium

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, developer-tools, cli, workflow-automation
- domain: developer-tools, web-development
- platform: cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: browser-automation, playwright, claude-skill, sandboxed-javascript, ai-agents, quickjs-wasm, automation, command-line, nodejs, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- SawyerHood/dev-browser (main) score 78

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.193265+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:44:03.410410+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/SawyerHood/dev-browser (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.193265+00:00, sha 8e785d27c143)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/dev-browser (fetched 2026-08-29T08:40:26.753526+00:00, sha 930f08c8c290)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.