hive.browser-automation SKILL.md skillA
hive.browser-automation from aden-hive/hive is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aden-hive/hive/hive.browser-automation@v2.2Pins v2.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aden-hive/hive
- Path
core/framework/skills/_default_skills/browser-automation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v2.2, committed Aug 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 17, 2026
- Size
- 49,967 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11,113
- License
- Apache-2.0
Required before any hive-browser CLI command. The browser is driven from the terminal by running `hive-browser <command> ... --json` via terminal_exec — not via MCP tools. Teaches the browser lifecycle rules (the bridge attaches to the USER'S running Chrome — never kill or launch browser processes; timeouts are transport issues, not crashes), the screenshot + coordinate workflow (hive-browser interact with a fractional coordinate) that reaches shadow-DOM inputs selectors can't see, the…
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
# GCU Browser Automation All GCU browser automation drives a real Chrome instance through the Beeline extension and Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP). You drive it **from the terminal**: every command is `hive-browser <command> ... --json`, run through `terminal_exec`. Always pass `--json` so the result is machine-readable. That means clicks, keystrokes, and screenshots are processed by the actual browser's native hit testing, focus, and layout engines — **not** a synthetic event layer. Understanding this unlocks strategies that make hard sites easy. ## Browser lifecycle & recovery — read this before "fixing" anything The bridge attaches to the **user's already-running Chrome** via the extension. The browser is not yours: it holds the user's logged-in sessions and other agents' work, and the runtime — not you — owns the connection to it. Consequences: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aden-hive/hive/hive.browser-automation@sha256:5c7701a17939ebcdThe line at the top of this page pins the label v2.2, 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_jpz62iounrhawi23)
5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Apr 17, 2026 and Aug 9, 2026, about one every 38 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.2 latest | 2026-08-09 | 6dafbbe | 49,967 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0 | 2026-04-19 | 656401e | 43,139 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0 | 2026-04-19 | f2e5115 | 42,746 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0 | 2026-04-17 | f52c448 | 42,536 B | A | view |
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 (49967 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
aden-hive/hive · 11,113 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jpz62iounrhawi23 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aden-hive/hive/hive.browser-automation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5c7701a17939ebcd8ff4a6f2d95ac28904cbe1e9057e65d530ffa085a646e6f0
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.