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pi-browser-harness

Browser control extension for pi — navigate, click, type, screenshot, and extract data from real Chrome via CDP

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Install

$ pi install npm:pi-browser-harness

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 0.10.2. This describes access, not safety — you decide whether it's appropriate for what the package claims to do.

  • 🤖
    Behavior — Changes how the agent thinks Modifies the system prompt, injects messages, or rewrites conversation context.
  • ⚡
    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.
  • 🌐
    Network — Talks to the internet Makes outbound network requests. Check the destinations are ones you expect.
  • 🔧
    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

observed

Loaded 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_setupbrowser_clickbrowser_typebrowser_fillbrowser_select_optionbrowser_focusbrowser_press_keybrowser_dispatch_keybrowser_scrollbrowser_page_infobrowser_waitbrowser_wait_forbrowser_wait_for_loadbrowser_handle_dialogbrowser_screenshotbrowser_navigatebrowser_open_urlsbrowser_go_backbrowser_go_forwardbrowser_reloadbrowser_list_tabsbrowser_current_tabbrowser_switch_tabbrowser_new_tabbrowser_close_tabbrowser_upload_filebrowser_downloadbrowser_print_to_pdfbrowser_viewport_resizebrowser_drag_and_dropbrowser_http_getbrowser_network_requestsbrowser_consolebrowser_snapshotbrowser_execute_jsbrowser_run_scriptbrowser_web_searchbrowser_read_page

Events subscribed before_agent_startsession_shutdownsession_startsession_tree

APIs called appendEntrygetFlagregisterCommandregisterFlagregisterToolsendUserMessagesessionManager.getBranchui.notify

Run against version 0.10.2 on 2026-08-02. Registration-time behaviour under default settings; other configurations may differ.

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