browser-trace SKILL.md skillA

browser-trace from mxyhi/ok-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mxyhi/ok-skills/browser-trace@git:20260517.ccd356a

Pins git:20260517.ccd356a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
mxyhi/ok-skills
Path
browser-trace/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260517.ccd356a, committed May 17, 2026
First version recorded
Apr 29, 2026
Size
15,024 bytes
Repository stars
500
License
Apache-2.0

Capture a full DevTools-protocol trace of any browser automation — CDP firehose, screenshots, and DOM dumps — then bisect the stream into per-page searchable buckets. Use when the user wants to debug a failed run, audit network/console/DOM activity, attach a trace to an in-progress session, or feed structured per-page summaries back into an agent loop so its next iteration learns from the last one.

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 Trace

Attach a **second, read-only CDP client** to a browser session that is already being driven by your main automation. The trace records the full DevTools firehose to NDJSON, polls for screenshots and DOM dumps in parallel, and slices everything into a directory tree that bash tools can search.

This skill does **not** drive pages — it only listens. Pair it with the `browser` skill, `browse`, Stagehand, Playwright, or anything else that speaks CDP.

## When to use

- The user wants to debug a browser-automation run (failing form, missing element, hung navigation, JS exception).
- The user has a running automation and wants to attach a trace mid-flight without restarting it.
- The user wants to split a CDP firehose into network / console / DOM / page buckets.
- The user wants screenshots + DOM snapshots over time, joined to CDP events by timestamp.

If the user just wants to **drive** the browser, use the `browser` skill instead.

## Setup check

```bash
node --version                                  # require Node 18+
which browse || npm install -g browse
which jq     || true                                # optional — used only for ad-hoc querying
```
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mxyhi/ok-skills/browser-trace@sha256:4d286999b87be21a

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260517.ccd356a, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_7hvcpygqm56b5ppj.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_7hvcpygqm56b5ppj)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Apr 29, 2026 and May 17, 2026, about one every 18 days.

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git:20260517.ccd356a latest2026-05-17 ccd356a 15,024 BA view · diff
git:20260429.b3834522026-04-29 b383452 14,714 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (15024 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

GitHub

mxyhi/ok-skills · 500 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7hvcpygqm56b5ppj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mxyhi/ok-skills/browser-trace
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4d286999b87be21a4c85112aa8fd654b08c8ed9c4159a25328b34eceab4d3a3b

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.

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