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Claude Code

Kenneth Hauglanf

Kenneth Hauglanf

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Claude Code

Testing out some Claude Code skills:

Recommendation (as of Jan 2026)

    • Something super quick to set up for Claude / Cursor agents
    • Mostly navigation, clicking, typing, extracting text/screenshots
    • Lower memory usage and fast iteration
    • You're okay launching a separate browser instance most of the time
  • Choose a Chrome MCP server if you want/need:Popular options right now:Quick start example for Browser MCP:
    • To use your real Chrome (logged into Gmail, banking, work accounts, extensions, etc.)
    • Performance debugging, network inspection, console logs, accessibility audits
    • To avoid bot detection / CAPTCHAs on tricky sites
    • Deeper integration in VS Code / Cursor via the MCP registry
    • Browser MCP (browsermcp.io + Chrome extension) → easiest for most people, great token efficiency
    • Chrome DevTools official MCP → best if you need real debugging power (performance traces, etc.)
    • mcp-chrome (hangwin's extension-based one) → very good real-Chrome control
    1. Install the Chrome extension from the store
    2. Add the MCP server in your client (Cursor/VS Code usually has one-click or config snippet)
    3. Agent prompt: "open my GitHub in the browser and star the repo"

Choose Browser Use CLI + skill if you want:Quick start:

uvx browser-use[cli]     # interactive
# or install skill for Claude:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/browser-use
curl -o ~/.claude/skills/browser-use/SKILL.md \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/browser-use/browser-use/main/skills/browser-use/SKILL.md

Then tell your agent: "use browser to go to example.com and find pricing"

Bottom line in one sentenceIf you're doing general web automation with Claude/Cursor and want something fast & lightweight → go with Browser Use CLI + skill.If you need your real logged-in Chrome, anti-bot resistance, or deep DevTools debugging → go with a Chrome-based MCP server (Browser MCP or official Chrome DevTools MCP are currently the strongest choices).Which scenario are you trying to solve (Claude agent? Cursor? debugging a site? logged-in accounts?)? I can give more precise setup steps.

Vercel has built skills.sh - A directory for agent skills and a simple way to install them. Context7 has a similar attempt. Some skills I came across over the weekend: