Browse

Control a local headless browser (Playwright/Chromium) on the user's machine. No cloud middleman. Use when the user wants to go to a URL, interact with the page, or bring back proof (e.g. open a site, click a button, fill a form, take a screenshot).

Call run_skill with skill: "browse". Set command or arguments.action to one of: navigate, click, scroll, fill, screenshot.

Commands

• •navigate — Open a URL and return the page's text content. Set arguments.url (full http/https URL).
• •click — Go to arguments.url, click an element, return the new page content. Set arguments.selector (CSS selector, e.g. button.submit, a#sign-in, [aria-label="Submit"]).
• •scroll — Go to arguments.url, scroll the page. Set arguments.direction to one of: down, up, top, bottom (default: down).
• •fill — Go to arguments.url, fill a form field. Set arguments.selector (e.g. input[name=q], #email) and arguments.value (text to type).
• •screenshot — Go to arguments.url, capture a screenshot (full page or element). Optional arguments.selector to capture only that element. Returns file path and a short page summary; screenshot is saved under ~/.cowcode/browse-screenshots/.

When to use Browse vs Search

• •Search (skill "search"): find info — queries, news, weather, "what's out there". Text in, text out.
• •Browse (skill "browse"): interact with the web — "open this URL", "click the login button", "fill the form", "screenshot this page". Go there, do that, bring back proof.

Never omit arguments.url for browse actions (except when continuing from a previous step; if in doubt, pass the URL again). Always use a valid CSS selector for click and fill.