Dev Browser
SkillWeb & browsingBrowser automation with persistent page state. Use when users ask to navigate websites, fill forms, take screenshots, extract web data, test web apps, or automate browser workflows. Trigger phrases include "go to [url]", "click on", "fill out the form", "take a screenshot", "scrape", "automate", "test the website", "log into", or any browser interaction request.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the Dev Browser skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by saffron-health/libretto in packages/browser-tools/benchmarks/skills/dev-browser/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
A CLI for controlling browsers with sandboxed JavaScript scripts.
Installation
npm install -g dev-browser
dev-browser install
Usage
Run dev-browser --help to learn more.
Named daemon-launched browsers persist by default. For unattended work, --idle-timeout 5m closes each launched browser after inactivity while preserving its profile and login state. The setting never closes Chrome attached with --connect; use --idle-timeout 0 to disable configured cleanup.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 889
- Forks
- 69
- Last commit
- Aug 2026
- Hacker News mentions
- 1
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dev-browser-saffron-health- Source
- github.com/saffron-health/libretto