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Use Rodney to control Ben’s personal Chrome profile on beryllium for browsing that needs existing cookies, sessions, and logins.

Purpose and scope

• This skill is for Ben’s personal browser context only.
• This is isolated from DevBrowser, which remains for development workflows.
• Because agents run on beryllium (same host as Ben’s Chrome), no tunneling is needed.

Setup (one-time on beryllium)

1. Install Rodney:

uv tool install rodney

2. Verify installation:

rodney --help

3. Ensure Ben’s Chrome is available and using the expected profile.

Process

1. Check if browser automation is needed - Prefer curl for static pages.
2. Use Rodney (personal profile) - Do not use DevBrowser for personal browsing.
3. Navigate and wait - Open URLs and wait for page content to load.
4. Interact as needed - Click, fill, scroll, and extract visible content.
5. Capture screenshot - Save an image for evidence or status updates.
6. Relay to Ben - Send screenshot via send_photo in Telegram.

Example: open page and screenshot

python3 - << 'PY'
import asyncio
from rodney import Browser

async def main() -> None:
    browser = Browser(headless=True)
    page = await browser.new_page()
    await page.goto("https://example.com")
    await page.screenshot(path="_/tmp/personal-browser-example.png", full_page=True)
    await browser.close()

asyncio.run(main())
PY

Example: send screenshot to Ben on Telegram

Use the Telegram tool after creating the screenshot file:

send_photo chat_id=<ben-chat-id> photo="_/tmp/personal-browser-example.png" caption="Page snapshot"

Notes

• Keep screenshots and temporary artifacts under _/tmp/.
• If Rodney is unavailable, install it first instead of switching to DevBrowser.
• For static pages, prefer curl plus skills/read-webpage.md.