Tencent Open Sources BrowserSkill for AI Agents

Your agent can write code, but it still cannot log into the sites you are already signed in to. Tencent just open sourced BrowserSkill, a bridge that lets an agent borrow one of your real browser tabs and hands it back when it is done.

That means it works where you are signed in, and it has to ask before it borrows anything. Everything runs locally, under the MIT license.

What Happened

• BrowserSkill is a bridge between your agent and your actual browser. Most tools hand the agent a blank browser instead.
• The tab it borrows comes from yours, so your login state is already there.
• Captchas and confirmation dialogs come back to you, and the agent continues once you are done.
• It is a CLI, not an MCP server, so any agent that can run a shell can use it, and you can see every call it makes.
• It works with Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, Openclaw, CodeBuddy and WorkBuddy.
• Install is a single line, everything runs locally, and it ships under the MIT license.

Why It Matters

The easy detail to miss is the permission switch. The agent asks before borrowing a tab, and that setting lives in your browser settings rather than in a command-line flag, so it cannot be talked around by whatever prompt the agent is following.

That combination changes what you can hand off. Instead of scraping a site the agent has no session for, you point it at a tab where you are already logged in, step in only for the captcha or the confirmation dialog, and watch each call as it happens because the CLI stays visible in your terminal.