Tencent open-sourced browserskill, a mit-licensed bridge that lets claude code, cursor, and codex…
tencent open-sourced browserskill, a mit-licensed bridge that lets claude code, cursor, and codex drive your real authenticated browser instead of a headless one. the login state you already trust is now the agent's environment.
the browser session just became the api.
Context
The Tencent/BrowserSkill repository is MIT licensed and describes a CLI plus extension for browser automation across any shell-capable AI agent. It connects Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, CodeBuddy, WorkBuddy, Pi, Hermes Agent and DeepSeek Harness to your already logged-in browser, reuses real login state, and has built-in human-in-the-loop when a task hits a captcha, login or confirmation. Chrome and Edge are supported, with Firefox planned.
The license, the real-login-state design and the named agents are first-party. The repository page read gave no open-sourcing date, so open-sourced as a recent event is undated. The repo's human-in-the-loop text is its own stated safeguard, and no security review was inspected. The login state you already trust being the agent's environment is the author's opinion.
Related work
- BrowserSkill README ↗Snippet only.
Watch next
- Release dates and the issue tracker for the permission model.
Sources
- Tencent/BrowserSkill (GitHub)github.com
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The note above is reproduced unedited from the original post, first published on Threads on 18 September 2026 at 09:47 IST. Sources are the papers and datasets the note draws on.
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