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Copy Chrome cookies into playwright-cli

Codex Compatibility

When running this skill in Codex, translate Claude Code-only primitives before acting: AskUserQuestion -> chat/request_user_input, TodoWrite -> update_plan, Task/TaskCreate/TeamCreate/SendMessage -> spawn_agent/send_input/wait_agent when available and allowed, and EnterPlanMode/ExitPlanMode -> a concise chat plan plus explicit approval. Resolve Read/Write/Edit/Bash/WebSearch/WebFetch to Codex file/shell/web tools, and map ~/.claude/... paths to ~/.agents/... or ~/.codex/... unless the task explicitly targets Claude Code.

Cursor Compatibility

When running this skill in Cursor Agent, translate Claude Code-only primitives before acting: AskUserQuestion -> AskQuestion; TodoWrite -> Cursor TodoWrite or an equivalent checklist; Task/TaskCreate/TeamCreate/SendMessage/multi-agent flows -> Cursor Task (subagents), parallel Tasks, or run_in_background when allowed (TeamCreate/SendMessage may have no exact match); EnterPlanMode/ExitPlanMode -> Plan mode (SwitchMode / CreatePlan) plus explicit user approval. Resolve Read/Write/Edit/StrReplace/Bash/web/search/MCP via Cursor Composer or Agent equivalents. MCP names written as mcp__server__tool typically map to call_mcp_tool with configured server identifiers. Map ~/.claude/... to ~/.cursor/skills/, .cursor/skills/, and .cursor/rules/ unless the task explicitly targets Claude Code.

Decrypt every cookie from the user's real Google Chrome and load them into a playwright-cli session, so automation inherits all logged-in sessions (GitHub, etc.) instead of starting logged out.

macOS only. Decryption uses the macOS Keychain + Chrome's AES-128-CBC scheme. Linux/Windows use different key storage and are not handled here.

Prerequisites

• macOS with Google Chrome installed (it can stay running — we snapshot the DB).
• playwright-cli on PATH (playwright-cli --version; else npx playwright-cli).
• Node.js (for the export script).

Workflow

1. Export + decrypt all Chrome cookies

node ~/.claude/skills/cookie/scripts/export-chrome-cookies.mjs
# non-default profile: pass its dir name, e.g. "Profile 1"
node ~/.claude/skills/cookie/scripts/export-chrome-cookies.mjs "Profile 1"

Writes two files and prints a summary (rows, exported, prefixStripped…):

• /tmp/chrome-load-cookies.js — the run-code loader (the path that works).
• /tmp/chrome-pw-cookies.json — storageState, for inspection only.

Keychain dialog (first run): macOS shows "… wants to use the 'Chrome Safe Storage' key". The script BLOCKS until the user clicks Always Allow. Tell the user to click it; do not assume the script hung.

A healthy run has prefixStripped ≈ exported and decryptErrors near 0.

2. Open a PERSISTENT playwright-cli session

playwright-cli open --persistent

--persistent is required. The default profile is in-memory and loses every cookie the moment the daemon restarts.

3. Load the cookies

playwright-cli run-code --filename=/tmp/chrome-load-cookies.js

Returns { ok, fail, total, sampleErrors }. The loader adds cookies one at a time inside try/catch, so a few malformed rows can't abort the batch — expect ok to be nearly total.

Do not use playwright-cli state-load for this. It runs a single batched addCookies, so one malformed row out of thousands fails the whole load atomically. The per-cookie loader above exists precisely to avoid that.

4. Verify BEFORE navigating anywhere

playwright-cli cookie-list --domain=github.com

Confirm the auth cookies are present FIRST. If you goto a site while its auth cookie set is incomplete, the server can Set-Cookie-clear your session and you'll have logged yourself back out. Only after cookies check out:

playwright-cli goto https://github.com   # then confirm the logged-in UI

5. Delete the plaintext token files 🔴

These two /tmp files hold every session token the user has. Delete them the moment the load succeeds — this is a hard requirement, not cleanup.

rm -f /tmp/chrome-load-cookies.js /tmp/chrome-pw-cookies.json

Never commit these files or any .playwright-cli/ / storageState artifacts. Cookies are secrets.

Notes & gotchas

• Session cookies don't survive a restart. Cookies with expires: -1 (no expiry — browser-session only; ~45 of ~4000 last time) are correctly dropped when the daemon restarts. That's expected, not data loss. Persistent auth cookies (e.g. GitHub user_session) do survive.
• Flush before closing. Chromium writes added cookies to disk lazily. If you close and later reopen the persistent session, first stay on a real page (not about:blank) and wait ~4s before a graceful close, or the freshly added cookies are lost. Not needed if you keep the session open.
• Re-run anytime. The script regenerates plaintext on demand and holds no secrets itself, so it's safe to leave in the skill dir and re-run to refresh.