Agent Skill

Lightpanda Skill for LLM Agents

Teach your LLM agent to use Lightpanda, a fast headless browser optimized for data extraction and web automation, as a drop-in replacement for Chrome/Chromium.

What is this?

This skill covers Lightpanda's interfaces and when to use them:

Interface	Best for
MCP server	Agent workflows, interactive browsing, form filling
CLI fetch	Quick one-off page extraction
CDP server	Custom automation with Playwright/Puppeteer
WebDriver server (Classic and BiDi)	Selenium, or Puppeteer over BiDi
Agent mode	Natural-language tasks, or authoring a PandaScript to save
Saved scripts (PandaScript)	Repeating a task deterministically, token-free

Lightpanda Cloud hosts the MCP and CDP servers, plus an HTTP API, for agents that can't install a binary or keep a process running.

A companion sub-skill, pandascript, covers writing PandaScript — the deterministic replay-script format run with lightpanda run (no LLM call).

SKILL.md and lightpanda.io/docs are the full reference — every tool, flag, and caveat.

Installation

1. Add the skill to your agent

Via skills.sh — works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Copilot, opencode, OpenClaw, Hermes, and more:

npx skills add lightpanda-io/agent-skill

It prompts for the skills and target agent — pick lightpanda, plus pandascript if you'll write replay scripts.

Claude Code users can instead install the plugin, which also wires in the MCP server:

/plugin marketplace add lightpanda-io/agent-skill
/plugin install lightpanda@lightpanda

2. Install the Lightpanda binary

With the skill loaded, ask the agent to do it — it knows the install script, the package-manager options, and the platform quirks. Or run it yourself:

bash scripts/install.sh

Homebrew, AUR, and .deb builds: see the install docs.

MCP server (optional)

The MCP server gives your agent live, interactive browsing — structured tools it calls mid-task (navigate, click, extract, wait, …) against a persistent session. It's one of the interfaces above, not a requirement.

Claude Code plugin users already have it. For any other MCP client, add this to your config:

{ "mcpServers": { "lightpanda": { "command": "lightpanda", "args": ["mcp"] } } }

Platform Support

• Linux (x86_64, aarch64)
• macOS (x86_64, arm64)
• Windows via WSL2

License

Apache 2.0