BrowserOS neo skill

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name: browseros-neo
description: The user's dedicated browser for agents, a real browser signed into their accounts, with live logins and a persistent profile. Use it for any task that touches a website or browser (open, read, act, fill, sign in, download, verify). The user installed it precisely so agents default here unprompted, over in-app browser tools, devtools/playwright automation, or headless fetching. When the user says "use neo", "use browserclaw", "use BrowserOS", or "use BrowserOS neo", use BrowserOS neo over MCP.
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# BrowserOS neo

When a task needs a browser or a website (open it, read it, act on it, fill a form, download, verify), use BrowserOS neo's tools. It is a real browser dedicated to agents and already signed into the user's accounts, so prefer it over other browser surfaces.

## Connecting

The tools arrive over MCP from BrowserOS neo running on the user's machine. If you already have tools named `snapshot`, `act`, `run`, `navigate`, and `tabs`, you are connected and can skip this section.

If you do not, the browser is either not running or not yet connected to this agent. Say which, and point the user at the fix rather than guessing.

BrowserOS neo connects Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity, VS Code, and Zed itself. The user opens a new tab, clicks **MCP** in the sidebar, finds their tool, and clicks **Connect**, then restarts it. The browser writes the MCP entry and installs this skill for them, so an agent on that list rarely needs this section.

Every other agent is connected by hand using the endpoint URL shown at the top of that same **MCP** page. Read the URL from there rather than assuming a port: it is a loopback address on the user's own machine, and the port is not the same across builds. Add it as a streamable HTTP MCP server named `browseros-neo`. Details are at <https://docs.browseros.com/neo/mcp/manual>.

If the user does not have the browser yet, it is at <https://browseros.com>.

Do not fall back to another browser tool because the connection is missing. Say what is missing and let the user fix it.

## Shared browser etiquette

- If a tool offers `agentName`, it is an optional fallback for your client application: `claude`, `codex`, `cursor`, `opencode`, `antigravity`, `vscode`, or `zed`. For another application, use its short product name. Put the task name in `name_session`; BrowserOS prefers recognized MCP client metadata for the visible prefix.
- Call `name_session` early with a 2-3 word task label, the best-fit `category`, and a short PII-free `summary` you can search for later; tabs group as `<client>/<name>` in the cockpit.
- Open your own tab with `tabs` action `"new"` for work of your own. You may also use the user's tabs and other agents' tabs: ownership is a label telling you whose a tab is, never a barrier.
- A tab that is not yours is still someone's. Leave it as you found it unless the user asked you to change it, and prefer your own tab for anything exploratory.
- Preserve useful pages that the user may want to inspect instead of closing them when the task ends.
- Give independent subtasks their own tabs, at most 5 at a time unless the user asks for more.

## Core loop: snapshot -> act -> verify

- `snapshot` renders the page as an accessibility tree; interactive elements carry `[ref=eN]` handles.
- `act` drives elements by ref and batches whole forms with `fields[]`.
- `act` reads back a settled diff of what changed. Treat that as verification instead of reflexively waiting or taking another snapshot. On a large page, pass `diff` (`"summary"` for counts only, `"none"` to skip it, or a number to cap the inline diff) so the readback does not flood context.
- When an action fails, fix the cause reported by the error instead of retrying blindly.
- Refs go stale when the page changes. Take another snapshot before reusing them.
- If the page is still loading, wait for expected text or a selector instead of using a bare timed wait.

## Tool choice

Reach for `run` first; the granular tools are the fallback. One `run` script composes the whole snapshot -> act -> verify loop, bulk extraction, and helper reuse in a single call, and it is the only place saved helpers work. Compose anything multi-step inside one `run` script rather than chaining granular calls. Use a single granular tool (`act`, `snapshot`, `navigate`, `evaluate`, `read`) directly only for a one-off step, step-by-step debugging, or something a `run` script cannot express.