web-automate SKILL.md skillA
web-automate from phuetz/code-buddy is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add phuetz/code-buddy/web-automate@git:20260617.c5b1985Pins git:20260617.c5b1985 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- phuetz/code-buddy
- Path
cowork/.claude/skills/web-automate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260617.c5b1985, committed Jun 17, 2026
- Size
- 3,721 bytes
- Repository stars
- 50
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Drive a real headless browser with Playwright (Python): navigate pages, screenshot, scrape rendered content, and fill/submit forms — with an optional Camoufox stealth backend. Use whenever the user wants to automate, scrape, or screenshot a website programmatically.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Browser automation with Playwright (Python)
Drive a real browser programmatically with the open-source **playwright** Python
library: navigate, screenshot, scrape JS-rendered content, fill and submit forms.
Work in **visible steps** and verify each result before reporting.
> For one-off, point-and-click control prefer the built-in browser/computer-use
> tools. Use *this* skill when the user wants a **scripted, reproducible** browser
> task (scrape N pages, screenshot a flow, fill a form) written as Python.
## Preflight (extras-tier — lib + browser binary)
```bash
python3 - <<'PY'
try:
import playwright # noqa: F401
except ModuleNotFoundError:
raise SystemExit(
"playwright not installed. Run `npm run prepare:python:extras` in cowork/ "
"(installs playwright + fetches the Firefox binary)."
)
print("playwright OK")
PY
```
If the browser binary is missing at runtime, fetch it once:
`python3 -m playwright install firefox` (honors `PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH`, which
the app points at the bundled `resources/python/<plat>/ms-playwright`).
## Workflow (one step at a time)
1. **Plan** the target URL and the action (screenshot / scrape / form).
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add phuetz/code-buddy/web-automate@sha256:b12ef160c2107ca9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260617.c5b1985, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_66gu532dbdcfstmf)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 17, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3721 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
phuetz/code-buddy · 50 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-12 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_66gu532dbdcfstmf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=phuetz/code-buddy/web-automate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b12ef160c2107ca92cae9b36dbc5a7ff24a8bae1d1f790fbc286f8c4ac397bb3
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.