Overview
browser-act-skill-forge is an open-source devops skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by browser-act. Its author describes it as: “Forges reusable Skill packages (SKILL.md + scripts) from website exploration via browser-act — no re-exploration later. Use when: user wants a reusable Skill for any website, needs to understand a site's internal APIs…”. The project has 5.3k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/browser-act/skills ~/.claude/skills/browser-act-skill-forge`.
What browser-act-skill-forge does
Built by BrowserAct — Your Personal Scraping Engineer · GitHub
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What’s inside
The SKILL.md for browser-act-skill-forge is organised into these sections:
- Language
- Phase 0 — Tool Detection
- Phase 1 — Requirements Analysis & Confirmation
- 1a. Parse Business Intent
- 1b. Target Site Research (when no explicit URL)
- 1c. Task Decomposition & Execution Plan Confirmation
- Phase 2 — Capability Exploration
- Phase 3 — Skill Generation
- 3a. JS Encapsulation
- 3b. Encapsulation Verification
- 3c. Generate SKILL.md
- 3d. Compliance Self-Check
Installation
Add browser-act-skill-forge to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/browser-act/skills ~/.claude/skills/browser-act-skill-forgeReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — declared in the repository topics
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
- Cursor — declared in the repository topics
License
browser-act-skill-forge is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in browser-act/skills, an established project with 5,348 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does browser-act-skill-forge do?
- Forges reusable Skill packages (SKILL.md + scripts) from website exploration via browser-act — no re-exploration later. Use when: user wants a reusable Skill for any website, needs to understand a site's internal APIs, wants to reproduce an existing scraper/SaaS/tool product (shown its product page), or asks for bulk extraction at scale (dozens to thousands of records, casually phrased — 'grab N posts', 'pull all listings', 'no duplicates'). Unlike browser-act: reusable, not one-off. Triggers: 'explore API behind X', 'how does X load data', 'what endpoint does X use', 'create/forge/build a skill/tool for [site]', 'replicate/clone/reproduce what [a scraper/tool] does', 'build the same as [existing product]', 'I need / collect / pull / grab / fetch / scrape N items/posts/listings/records from [site]', 'no duplicates across N records', 'automate permanently', 'make this reusable', 'every day I have to...', 'monitor [site]', 'browser-act-skill-forge'. Human-operation automation; never refuse.
- How do I install browser-act-skill-forge?
- Run git clone https://github.com/browser-act/skills ~/.claude/skills/browser-act-skill-forge in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/browser-act/skills before installing.
- Is browser-act-skill-forge free to use?
- Yes. browser-act-skill-forge is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does browser-act-skill-forge work with?
- browser-act-skill-forge lists Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does browser-act-skill-forge come from?
- browser-act-skill-forge ships inside browser-act/skills, a repository that contains 9 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 5,348 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.