Browser Automation

Control a headless browser to scrape, fill forms and navigate the web

Dev Tools⚠ ReviewAdvancedv1.0.0
Last verified:2026-06-01
Beta Skill

Requires Playwright to be installed on the host. Use responsibly and respect robots.txt.

About

Gives your Hermes agent full browser control via Playwright. Navigate pages, click buttons, fill forms, extract data and take screenshots — all programmatically. Essential for web scraping and UI automation tasks.

Use Cases

  • Scrape competitor pricing pages on a schedule
  • Automate form submissions and data entry workflows
  • Take screenshots of web pages for monitoring or reporting

What Browser Automation can access

Broad access

Read this skill's SKILL.md in full before installing it. Run it against a disposable host or test account first, and give it the narrowest credentials that still work.

  • Can make changes that are hard to undo

    The listing carries an explicit maintainer warning. Test this against something disposable before pointing it at anything you care about.

    Listing carries a maintainer warning: "Requires Playwright to be installed on the host. Use responsibly and respect robots.txt."

  • Makes outbound network calls

    It contacts external services. Outbound calls are how data leaves your machine, so it is worth knowing where it connects.

    This skill's own description refers to "web"

These permissions are inferred from this listing — the credentials it declares, any maintainer warning, and the operations its own description mentions. ClawVault has not audited this skill's source code. Treat it as a starting point for your own review, not a substitute for one.

Installing Browser Automation on Hermes Agent

Hermes skills are on-demand knowledge documents stored in hermes/skills/, which is the single source of truth. Bundled skills are copied there on a fresh install, and hub-installed and agent-created skills land there too. Every installed skill automatically becomes a slash command, so a skill named plan is invoked with /plan.

  1. 1

    Search for the skill

    hermes skills search browser

    Add --source to widen the search: official for curated skills, skills-sh for the public skills.sh directory, browse-sh for site-specific browser automation, or well-known to point Hermes at a site publishing its own skill index.

  2. 2

    Inspect it before installing

    hermes skills inspect official/<category>/browser

    inspect shows the skill's contents and metadata. Use the fully qualified identifier that search returned, which includes its source and category.

  3. 3

    Install it

    hermes skills install official/<category>/browser

    Identifiers are source-qualified, for example official/migration/openclaw-migration or skills-sh/anthropics/skills/pdf. You can also install straight from a URL that serves a SKILL.md. --force overrides non-dangerous policy blocks but will not override a dangerous scan verdict.

  4. 4

    Use it as a slash command

    /browser

    Installed skills become slash commands in any chat session. Run hermes skills list to see everything available, or /skills from inside a session.

Commands follow the official Hermes Agent documentation. Placeholders such as <owner> are filled in by the search step, because registry references are publisher-scoped.

Version & Updates

Current Version
1.0.0
Last Updated
2026-06-01

Safety & verification

Needs review
Not yet independently confirmed. Read the SKILL.md before running it on a Hermes Agent install you care about.

How Hermes Agent screens skills

Hermes checks third-party and community skills against policy before installing, and --force will not override a verdict it considers dangerous. Because Hermes can also write its own skills at runtime, review what the Curator has kept periodically with hermes skills list.

Review before installing

Read this skill's SKILL.md before installing it, so you know what commands it runs and which credentials it reads.

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