OpenClaw Browser Automation Plugin

Chrome/Chromium browser control for OpenClaw through Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP).

This plugin owns browser automation only. For search, use OpenClaw's built-in web_search capability.

Plugin Skill Files

On startup, the plugin installs a skill into each bot workspace under skills/browser-automation/ (the skills/ directory is the skill source OpenClaw scans at the highest precedence):

• SKILL.md — skill instructions with YAML frontmatter so OpenClaw's skill loader registers it
• browser-tool.js
• one Chrome debug starter for the selected host OS:
  • start-chrome-debug.bat on Windows
  • start-chrome-debug.sh on macOS/Linux

Legacy root-level browser/search helper files, old search prompt folders, and the previous wrong-location assets (plugin-skills/browser-automation) are removed from workspaces.

Real Chrome Debug Mode

Start Chrome debug on the host machine first:

skills\browser-automation\start-chrome-debug.bat

or:

./skills/browser-automation/start-chrome-debug.sh

Then use:

node skills/browser-automation/browser-tool.js status
node skills/browser-automation/browser-tool.js open https://example.com
node skills/browser-automation/browser-tool.js get_text

The tool tries real host Chrome first and falls back to local headless Chromium for server/VPS use.