Just dropped on r/PromptEngineering: a Chrome and Brave side panel called Browser Control that learns browser routines by watching you do them. It’s powered by Codex.
You’ve probably spent twenty minutes writing a prompt to explain a browser task, then watched the AI botch it anyway. Some things are easier to show than to describe.
The twist
When the assistant gets a task wrong, you don’t rewrite the prompt. You demonstrate your routine instead. It captures your steps, you review them, and you save them as a reusable skill. Next time you ask for something similar, the AI has a concrete procedure to work from instead of guessing.
So the prompt stops being the teaching tool. Your own clicks are.
The mini-workflow
🎬 Pick a simple browser routine with a clear end result. Something you do the same way every week.
📝 Record yourself doing it, then read through the captured steps before you save anything. This is the part where you fix any stray clicks.
💾 Save it as a skill.
🔁 Ask for a similar task and compare what comes back with what you actually intended.
Pro tips
Start small. A routine with a clear finish line is easy to judge, so you’ll know fast whether the skill works. A sprawling ten-site workflow will just make it hard to tell what went wrong.
Review the steps every time. The review step is what separates a skill that works from one that repeats your mistakes.
The rest of the panel is sensible too. You can ask questions about an attached page, organise your tabs, and turn on optional memory. Actions are visible while they happen, you pick your own approval settings, and you can stop a task mid-run.
Fair warning
This is a fresh post from the creator with almost no feedback yet, and I haven’t tested it myself. Treat it as something worth a ten-minute experiment, not a proven tool. The creator is actively asking for feature requests, which means your feedback may actually shape it.
There’s a video overview on YouTube and a project page at browser-control.subdomain.wtf if you want to see it before installing.
Got a browser chore you repeat every week? Teach it once, then tell me how it went 🏴☠
I built a way to teach a browser assistant a routine by demonstrating it
by u/pleasetellme-1 in PromptEngineering