fetch
Use this skill when the user wants to retrieve a URL without a full browser session: fetch HTML or JSON from static pages, inspect status codes or headers, follow redirects, or get page source for simple scraping.
Install / Use
npx skills add browserbase/skills --skill fetchInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
Customer SupportSupported Platforms
Our assessment of fetch
fetch scores 86/100 on our quality scale, 105th of 172 Customer Support skills we index.
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 3,731 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 18 days ago, so fetch is actively maintained.
- No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
- Its trust signals score 88/100, with 1 caution from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
fetch compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than fetch; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fetch (this skill)by browserbase | 86 | 3.7k | 18d ago | SKILL.md |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 85.7k | 12d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| headroomby headroomlabs-ai | 100 | 73.9k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| crawl4aiby unclecode | 100 | 84.4k | 2d ago | MCP Server |
| Scraplingby D4Vinci | 100 | 84.0k | today | MCP Server |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install fetch?
- Run
npx skills add browserbase/skills --skill fetch. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does fetch work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is fetch safe to use?
- It declares no license and scores 88/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is fetch still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 18 days ago, so fetch is actively maintained.
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.
