browser-goblin
A Pi package that gives coding agents a browser goblin for testing, debugging, and visual QA tasks.
Install
pi install npm:browser-goblin
Installs from npm into ~/.pi/agent/.
Add -l for project-local (.pi/). Manage with pi list / pi update / pi remove.
What this package can reach
Detected automatically from the source at
version 0.4.8.
This describes access, not safety — you decide whether it's appropriate for what
the package claims to do.
- Commands — Runs shell commands Spawns processes on your machine.
- Files — Reads files outside your project Touches paths beyond the working directory, such as your home folder.
- Tool control — Can switch pi's tools on and off Calls setActiveTools, so it can disable built-ins — including safety-relevant ones.
- New tools — Adds model-callable tools Gives the agent new abilities. Additive and visible, unlike an override.
- UI — Draws its own interface Renders widgets, footers, dialogs or full-screen views.
What it actually did when run
observedLoaded in a sandbox with no network, a read-only filesystem and a recording stand-in for pi's API. This is what it called — not what the source suggests it might.
Tools registered browser_openbrowser_snapshotbrowser_clickbrowser_fillbrowser_pressbrowser_waitbrowser_screenshotbrowser_readbrowser_evalbrowser_debugbrowser_consolebrowser_errorsbrowser_networkbrowser_vitalsbrowser_tabsbrowser_set_viewportbrowser_reloadbrowser_backbrowser_forwardbrowser_artifacts_listbrowser_artifacts_latestbrowser_artifacts_cleanbrowser_qabrowser_batchbrowser_close
Events subscribed session_start
APIs called appendEntryexecexec.stderr.trimexec.stderr.trimEndexec.stdout.trimexec.stdout.trimEndregisterCommandregisterToolsessionManager.getBranchui.notify
4 calls the source scan did not predict
exec.stderr.trim · exec.stderr.trimEnd · exec.stdout.trim · exec.stdout.trimEnd
Reached through a value the scan could not follow — passed as an argument, stored on another object, or returned by a helper.
Run against version 0.4.8 on 2026-08-02.
Registration-time behaviour under default settings; other configurations may differ.
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