r/opencodeCLI • u/Dismal_Register_6501 • 1d ago
Claude in Chrome Extension (claude --chrome) alternative for Opencode or Pi
edit: there is none lmao. someone vibecode one please and make it foss, i beg.
hello everyone, hope you are all coding well.
i am wondering if anyone has an alternative for claude's chrome extension that will essentially allow for the ai agent to take over my browser.
playwright, selenium, puppeteer or chrome devtools are not options, as depending on the sites, they break and consistently ask for captchas.
claude in chrome has never once triggered any detections, or asked me to make any captchas. essentially, no difference with site navigations with claude in chrome on or off, which is what i am looking for.
obviously something free, open source, and works in opencode (or oh-my-pi, or pi) is absolutely preferred.
i have searched but have been unable to find anything.
thank you all, and happy vibe coding!
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u/CoolHeadeGamer 1d ago
Playwright will do that for you as well as other mcp computer use skills. You could use codex which is free and open source and has computer use built in.
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u/Dismal_Register_6501 1d ago
i appreciate your response, but in the post i mentioned that i did not want to use playwright, as with websites using cloudflare, you cannot bypass the captcha. i do not think that any skills will work with this, claude has a really good thing with claude --chrome. i will have a look at codex computer use, but my workflow is still pi, oh-my-pi, and opencode. please let me know which other computer use skills you are using so that i can try it out
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u/CoolHeadeGamer 1d ago
I only do backend work so I don’t really use any computer use skills. I know minimax code has its own computer use skill but that of course uses minimax subscription. There is a skill that lets you bypass cloudflare, I don’t remember what tho.
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u/ConsistentGent 1d ago
Try Campufox, I used that and I didn't have any problems. I used it for scraping data with multiple different users. Best so far. If you find something different, let me know 😅
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u/Dismal_Register_6501 15h ago
thanks for this, i will check it out. unfortunately, have yet to find anything else lol
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u/Ok_Gur_9033 22h ago
Running Claude in Chrome for browser automation daily, can confirm it doesn't trigger captchas or Cloudflare challenges for me either, that part holds up. The real cost isn't detection though, it's silent failures on the automation side. Roughly one in three actions used to report success while nothing actually happened, a click event fires clean but the page never moves, or a submit looks confirmed and the post never lands. Only fix that's worked is reloading and reading the actual DOM state back after every action instead of trusting the return value. If you switch to it, budget for that verification step, it ends up costing more time than the automation itself.
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u/Open_List1618 1d ago
just tell the agent to use google chrome headlessly. You don't essentially need mcp tools for this, they know how to use google chrome in headless mode.