Web Browsing

The most installed skill on ClawHub — gives your agent full browser control

Must-Have✓ SafeBeginnerv4.1.3
Last verified:March 2026

About

Web Browsing is the single most installed skill on ClawHub with over 180,000 installs and for good reason — without it your OpenClaw agent is a chatbot running on stale training data. This official first-party skill gives your agent the ability to navigate real web pages, extract content, follow links, fill forms and interact with live websites exactly as a human would. Research tasks, documentation lookups, price monitoring, competitor analysis and fact-checking all start here. It is the foundation that most advanced agent workflows are built on top of.

Use Cases

  • Agent browses and summarises competitor websites on a daily schedule
  • Research pipelines that read, extract and synthesise content from multiple sources
  • Monitor a web page for changes and alert you when something updates
  • Fill out web forms, log into services and complete multi-step browser tasks

What Web Browsing can access

Limited access

Low blast radius on the evidence available, but it is still third-party code — a quick look at the SKILL.md costs nothing.

  • 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 Web Browsing on OpenClaw

An OpenClaw skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md file: Markdown with YAML frontmatter. At startup OpenClaw scans the eligible skill directories and injects a compressed description of each skill into its system prompt, so the agent knows what it can do and invokes a skill when a request matches.

  1. 1

    Find the skill in the registry

    openclaw skills search web-browsing

    ClawHub is the public registry for OpenClaw skills. Searching first gives you the exact owner-qualified reference, which is what the install command needs. Omit the query to browse the default feed.

  2. 2

    Check what it does and who published it

    openclaw skills verify @<owner>/web-browsing

    verify prints ClawHub's verification envelope, including its scan decision and, when available, a commit-pinned source URL. Add --card to read the generated Skill Card instead. Substitute the owner handle returned by the search above.

  3. 3

    Install it

    openclaw skills install @<owner>/web-browsing

    Native ClawHub skills use an @owner/slug reference. By default this installs into the active workspace skills/ directory; add --global to install into the shared managed directory instead. You can also install from Git with git:owner/repo, or from a local folder with ./path.

  4. 4

    Confirm the agent can see it

    openclaw skills check

    check reports which ready skills are actually visible to the agent's prompt surface, which is the quickest way to catch a skill that installed but did not load.

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

Version & Updates

Current Version
4.1.3
Last Updated
March 18, 2026
What's New

Major update: Puppeteer integration, improved JavaScript rendering, better form interaction

Safety & verification

Listed as safe
No known issues reported for this skill in the OpenClaw ecosystem.

How OpenClaw screens skills

Since February 2026 ClawHub screens submitted skills with VirusTotal: each bundle is hashed and looked up, new bundles are scanned with Code Insight, and results drive an approve, warn or block decision with daily re-scanning. This materially reduces supply-chain risk but does not eliminate it, and independent research has found that different scanners frequently disagree about the same skill. Read the SKILL.md of anything you install, especially if it requests shell access or credentials.

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