lightpanda-browser SKILL.md skillC

lightpanda-browser from mathews-tom/armory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/lightpanda-browser@v1.0.1

Pins v1.0.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
C, 15 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
mathews-tom/armory
Path
skills/lightpanda-browser/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v1.0.1, committed Apr 11, 2026
First version recorded
Mar 20, 2026
Size
16,227 bytes
Repository stars
334
License
MIT

Lightweight headless browser automation via Lightpanda and agent-browser CLI: 9x lower memory, 11x faster than Chromium, for scraping and DOM interaction without rendering. Triggers on: "lightpanda", "lightweight browser", "fast headless browser", "headless scraping", "low memory browser", "browser without rendering".

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

# Lightpanda Browser — Fast Headless Automation

Headless browser automation using [Lightpanda](https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser) as the backend engine, controlled through the `agent-browser` CLI via CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol).

**When to use this over agent-browser:**

| Use Lightpanda                   | Use agent-browser (Chromium)       |
| -------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- |
| Web scraping / data extraction   | Screenshots, PDFs, visual testing  |
| Form automation / submission     | Video recording / visual debugging |
| API response inspection          | CSS layout verification            |
| DOM traversal / content parsing  | Mobile device emulation (iOS)      |
| CI environments with limited RAM | Full browser extension support     |
| High-volume parallel sessions    | Sites requiring full rendering     |

**Triggers:**

- "lightpanda", "lightweight browser", "fast headless"
- "scrape with low memory", "headless scraping"
- "browser without rendering", "DOM-only browser"
- "fast browser automation", "efficient scraping"
- "is lightpanda faster than chromium?", "which headless browser uses less memory?"
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/lightpanda-browser@sha256:c92fe7c221ad926b

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.1, 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_ybssswxedjrpfgba.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ybssswxedjrpfgba)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 20, 2026 and Apr 11, 2026, about one every 5 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.1 latest2026-04-11 0aa221a 16,227 BC view · diff
v1.0.12026-04-07 b03849d 16,560 BC view · diff
v1.0.02026-03-27 d46cf2e 16,560 BC view · diff
v1.0.02026-03-26 6fe71e6 16,028 BC view · diff
v1.0.02026-03-20 faaf3f4 15,915 BC view

Audit of the latest version

C  15 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: No curl or wget piped into a shell (matched: curl -fsSL https://github.com/nichochar/install-lightpanda/raw/main/install.sh | bash)
  • fail: No link to a raw IP address (matched: http://127.0.0.1:9222)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16227 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 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 script tag

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

mathews-tom/armory · 334 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ybssswxedjrpfgba
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mathews-tom/armory/lightpanda-browser
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c92fe7c221ad926b9acc17dc4d63599cc4d1bccae172c00c4e9972e3b411944e

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.

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