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name: browser description: "Drives a real browser through the omowright library from the js eval kernel: sites the user is already signed into, forms and clicks, JS-rendered pages, screenshots, web QA, extension popups, a human handoff for login, CAPTCHA or OTP, and a browser you own for scraping, bot-scored targets, network capture and QA traces. Use for any interactive browser task; not for a plain search or an unblocked static fetch."

Browser

One library, two engines. omowright ships inside this skill; choose the engine before you act:

| You need | Engine | Entry point | |---|---|---| | A site the user is signed into, their open tabs, a form, a click-through, a screenshot, web QA, an extension popup | attached — the user's own browser through BrowserSkill | connectBrowserSkill() | | A throwaway profile, bot-scoring evasion, a CAPTCHA, network interception, a QA flight trace, coordinate control, headless runs | owned — a browser your code launches | connectPipe() / connectCloakProfile() — references/owned-engine/README.md | | Text out of a URL, a 403 bypass, a platform that blocks fetchers | neither | the ultimate-browsing skill |

Attached is the default, because it is the only engine carrying the user's logins and the only one where a human is a single call away. Never substitute one engine for the other silently: if the attached engine is not set up, run the onboarding script and tell the user its one remaining step.

Step 0 — load omowright and prove the stack

const { loadOmowright } = await import("<skill-root>/scripts/omowright.mjs")
const { omowright } = await loadOmowright()          // { connectBrowserSkill, bskSnapshot, connectPipe, ... }

node "<skill-root>/scripts/browser-doctor.mjs" --json

| State | Meaning | Next | |---|---|---| | ready | CLI, daemon and a connected browser | start a session | | no-cli / no-daemon / no-extension | something is missing | node "<skill-root>/scripts/browser-install.mjs" [--browser=<id>] prepares everything it can for the browser the user uses, then prints the single step only the user can do (relaunch that browser and click Enable); relay it verbatim, wait, re-run the doctor | | choose-browser | the signals do not single out one browser (Safari/Firefox default, an idle default while another browser runs, several in use) | nothing was installed; take the browser from memory or ask the user, then browser-install.mjs --browser=<id> | | no-browser-support | no Chromium-family profile on this machine | say so and stop |

Install into the browser the user actually uses, never into whatever happens to be on disk. Before installing, check your memory for the user's browser; otherwise read the doctor's browser (picked from the OS default browser, running apps and recent use — candidates shows the evidence). If memory and the doctor disagree, or the doctor says choose-browser, ask the user. Pass the answer as --browser=<id> and record it in memory. A Chrome that is merely installed is not their browser.

Never launch a headless browser because the attached one is missing. It has none of the user's sessions, so every login turns into a ladder you should not be climbing. Say which state you hit and ask.

The loop (attached)

const session = await omowright.connectBrowserSkill({ name: "<task>", focused: false })
try {
  await session.navigate("https://example.com/", { waitUntil: "load" })
  const { tree, refs, css } = await omowright.bskSnapshot(session, { interactive: true })  // OmOWright tree + refs, no trace in the page
  await session.click({ selector: css.e3 })                                                 // css[ref] is null inside shadow roots:
  const vom = await session.observe({ maxTokens: 4000 })                                    //   then read the daemon's own tree ...
  await session.click("@e7")                                                                //   ... and click its @eN ref
  await session.fill(css.e5, "hello")
  await session.press("Enter")
  await session.waitForNavigation({ waitUntil: "load" })
  const shot = await session.screenshot()                                                   // { buffer, width, height, captureId }
} finally {
  await session.stop()                                                                      // success AND failure; returns borrowed tabs
}

1. Read before every action. bskSnapshot refs and observe @eN refs are reissued on each call; use a ref in the same cycle you read it.
2. Navigation and large DOM changes stale every ref. Read again rather than reusing.
3. Two identical failures mean change approach, not retry. A third identical attempt is a defect.
4. Borrow a user tab explicitly (tabList({ scope: "user" }), tabBorrow(id), tabReturn(id)). Borrowing prompts the user; never invent tab ids and never repeat a denied borrow.
5. Always stop() the session, on success and on failure.

Every method, its options, and the failure codes are in references/commands.md.

When a human is the only way through

Login, CAPTCHA, OTP, a payment confirmation, a consent dialog:

const outcome = await session.requestHelp({ prompt: "<what you need done>", targets: ["@e4"], timeoutMs: 300_000 })

Then read the page again. Respect a cancelled or timed_out outcome; do not work around it by changing the extension's automation settings.

Rules

• Never read credentials through the page. No evaluate that extracts a password, token, cookie or recovery code. The value of the attached engine is that the browser is already signed in.
• Never clear cookies, cache or site data. It is the user's real profile; clearing it logs them out everywhere. No flow here needs it.
• focused: false by default. The browser belongs to someone who is probably using it.
• One short, named session per task, always stopped.
• Bot-scored or WAF targets go to the owned engine. The attached engine's daemon enables console capture on every tab it drives, which is a known automation signal; CloakBrowser through connectCloakProfile() is the stealth path.

Where the rest lives

| Topic | Read | |---|---| | Session methods, targets, options, error codes | references/commands.md | | Installing: CLI, daemon, extension, the one human step, blocklisted extension | references/install.md | | Agent on one machine, browser on another | references/remote.md | | Owned engine: launch, snapshot ladder, network, frames, human handoff | references/owned-engine/README.md | | Reading a 1Password vault the user has unlocked | references/recipes/1password.md |