# playwright-stealth-verify

Checks whether an automated browser exposes a coherent fingerprint. Use it to measure headless settings or stealth-plugin changes in a test harness.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 102500 installs · ★ 5
- Author: liarjsdev
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/liarjsdev/liarjs-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/playwright-stealth-verify/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-08-06
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## What it does

This skill runs `liarjs` against an existing `Page` and looks for fingerprint mismatches in an automated browser. It checks `navigator.webdriver`, `HeadlessChrome` traces, patched API integrity, main-thread versus Web Worker identity, and GPU names reported by WebGL and WebGPU.

Use `checkPage(page)` in a test to get a score, individual checks, raw browser and edge observations, plus schema metadata. There are 40 checks. A test can assert on failed check IDs instead of relying on one score.

Node 22 or newer is required, so the Node version is the first thing to check. `liarjs` has zero runtime dependencies. The `--offline` flag runs 32 JavaScript-layer checks without an outbound request, while probes use `about:blank` unless `--page <url>` is supplied.

## Requirements
- Works with: Playwright

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add liarjsdev/liarjs-skills --skill playwright-stealth-verify -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/playwright-stealth-verify/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/playwright-stealth-verify/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add liarjsdev/liarjs-skills --skill playwright-stealth-verify -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/playwright-stealth-verify/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add liarjsdev/liarjs-skills --skill playwright-stealth-verify -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/playwright-stealth-verify/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install liarjsdev/liarjs-skills playwright-stealth-verify
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/playwright-stealth-verify/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add liarjsdev/liarjs-skills --skill playwright-stealth-verify -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/liarjsdev/liarjs-skills --path skills/playwright-stealth-verify
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/playwright-stealth-verify/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add liarjsdev/liarjs-skills --skill playwright-stealth-verify -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/liarjsdev/liarjs-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/playwright-stealth-verify/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- check `navigator.webdriver` in an automated browser
- find mismatches between a main thread and Web Worker
- detect a `HeadlessChrome` token in the user agent
- compare GPU identities from WebGL and WebGPU
- add fingerprint assertions to a test suite

## Example prompts
- Check the current `Page` with `liarjs` and list checks marked `bad`.
- Add `checkPage(page)` to this test and fail it on critical checks.
- Run the scan with `--offline` so it makes no outbound request.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: playwright-stealth-verify
description: Check whether a Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium or CDP-driven browser presents a coherent fingerprint, using liarjs as a library against a Page you already have - navigator.webdriver, HeadlessChrome tokens, worker versus main-thread identity, patched-API integrity, WebGL versus WebGPU GPU identity. Use when asked whether an automated browser looks like a normal one, when a headless setup or a stealth plugin's effect needs measuring rather than assuming, or when an assertion on fingerprint quality belongs in a test suite.
license: MIT
allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Edit, Write
---

# Verify an automation harness against itself

A test browser that quietly looks wrong is a test suite that quietly gets challenged. `liarjs`
answers one question about a harness: does its JavaScript story agree with itself and with what the
network layer saw? It measures; it does not modify the browser and ships no evasions or profiles.

Node 22 or newer. Zero runtime dependencies, so it adds nothing to an existing Playwright or
Puppeteer install.

## Against a Page you already have

`checkPage` works with any object exposing `evaluate(expression: string)`. Playwright and Puppeteer
`Page` objects both qualify, so the harness under test is the harness being measured, with its real
launch flags, real plugins and real proxy in place.

```ts
import { checkPage } from 'liarjs';

const result = await checkPage(page);

expect(result.score).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(85);

// Or assert on specific ids rather than a single number:
const critical = result.checks.filter((c) => c.status === 'bad');
expect(critical, JSON.stringify(critical, null, 2)).toHaveLength(0);
```

`ScanResult` is `{ score, label, checks[], client, server, meta }`: `client` is the raw fingerprint,
`server` the raw edge view, `meta.schema` the payload version.

Install as a dev dependency so the version is pinned in the lockfile:

```bash
npm install --save-dev liarjs
```

## Against a browser started outside the test process

```bash
npx liarjs@0.3 --cdp http://127.0.0.1:9222
```

Use this when the browser is already running and is itself the subject of the question, for example
a Chromium build with local patches:

```bash
./chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222 &
npx liarjs@0.3 --cdp http://127.0.0.1:9222
```

Attaching drives a session the user owns. Confirm the endpoint with the user first, and prefer the
default (`npx liarjs@0.3`, which launches its own throwaway profile in a temp directory and deletes
it afterwards) whenever the question is about a launch configuration rather than about one specific
running browser.

## What the harness-specific checks catch

| id | what it catches in an automation harness | max deduction |
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