Connect chrome

Skill timurgaleev/vibestack/skills/connect-chrome

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Install

npx -y skills add timurgaleev/vibestack --skill connect-chrome

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Reuse your real Chrome's logged-in cookies in the browse daemon, so authenticated pages work without re-logging-in.

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When to invoke

Use when the browse daemon needs to act as your logged-in self — reuse the cookies/sessions from your real Chrome (e.g. QA-ing a page behind a login) without typing credentials into the automated browser.

/connect-chrome — Reuse your Chrome session

If BROWSE_NOT_AVAILABLE: tell the user the browse shim is required and stop.

1. Start Chrome with remote debugging

Ask the user to launch (or relaunch) Chrome with a debugging port — this exposes its cookies over CDP without leaking the password:

macOS: "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome" --remote-debugging-port=9222
Linux: google-chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222
Windows: chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9222

Confirm it is reachable:

curl -s http://127.0.0.1:9222/json/version >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "CHROME_CDP_OK" || echo "CHROME_CDP_UNREACHABLE"

If CHROME_CDP_UNREACHABLE: the port differs or Chrome isn't in debug mode — ask the user to confirm the launch flag and port.

2. Start the daemon and import the cookies

"$B" daemon >/dev/null 2>&1 &        # persistent session (skip if already running)
sleep 1
"$B" cookies import-cdp http://127.0.0.1:9222

3. Verify

Navigate to a page that requires login and confirm you're signed in:

"$B" goto <authenticated-url>
"$B" snapshot          # look for signed-in markers (account name, logout link)

Report whether the session carried over. Stop the daemon with "$B" daemon-stop when done. Cookies stay in the daemon's session only — they are never written to the repo or logged.