First-party app
Skyvern

Skyvern

Automate any website with Skyvern's AI browser agents: run natural-language tasks, run saved agents (workflows), and manage runs, browser sessions, browser profiles and credentials.

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About

Skyvern ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 20 actions, 3 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.

App id
io.w6w.skyvern
Version
0.1.0
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
AI & Machine Learning · Developer Tools

Overview

Skyvern drives a real browser with LLMs and computer vision, so a workflow can automate websites that have no API: log in, fill forms, extract data, download files and complete multi-step jobs from a plain-language goal.

Two things can be run. A task is a one-off goal (a prompt, an optional start URL and an optional data-extraction schema). An agent is a saved, reusable multi-step automation (what older Skyvern docs and operation ids call a workflow) that is started by id with parameters. Both produce a run: poll it, read its output, cancel it, list past runs, or pull its artifacts (recordings, screenshots, logs) and its block-by-block timeline.

The app also manages the pieces a run uses: persistent browser sessions (keep a live browser across several runs, extend or close it), browser profiles (saved cookies and local storage to stay logged in), and stored credentials (listed by name and type; Skyvern never returns the secret).

This app covers Skyvern Cloud (api.skyvern.com). Scripts, schedules, tags, folders, custom LLMs, job recipes, creating or editing agents, and writing credentials are left out and listed in the README.

Build with Skyvern

Three routes to the same 20 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Skyvern's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.

Get Agent

agent-get

Fetch a saved agent, including its block definition and parameters.

List Agents

agent-list

List saved Skyvern agents (workflows) with their ids, titles and versions.

Delete Browser Profile

browser-profile-delete

Delete a saved browser profile.

Get Browser Profile

browser-profile-get

Fetch one saved browser profile.

List Browser Profiles

browser-profile-list

List saved browser profiles (persisted cookies and local storage).

Close Browser Session

browser-session-close

Close a browser session so it stops billing; `completed_at` is set when it ends.

Create Browser Session

browser-session-create

Start a persistent browser session. Pass its id to Run Task / Run Agent to keep login state and page context across runs.

Extend Browser Session

browser-session-extend

Add minutes to a running browser session's deadline (up to 360 minutes in total).

Get Browser Session

browser-session-get

Fetch a browser session: status, address, downloaded files and recordings.

List Browser Sessions

browser-session-list

List the account's active browser sessions.

Get Credential

credential-get

Fetch a stored credential's name, type and non-secret details.

List Credentials

credential-list

List stored credentials by name and type, to reference them in an agent. Secrets are never returned.

Run Agent

run-agent

Start a saved Skyvern agent (workflow) by id with parameters. Returns the new run; poll it with Get Run.

Get Run Artifacts

run-artifacts

List a run's artifacts (recording, screenshots, logs, HTML) with signed download URLs.

Cancel Run

run-cancel

Cancel a task or agent run that is still in progress.

Get Run

run-get

Fetch a run's status, output, failure reason, recording and screenshots. Poll until `status` is terminal.

List Runs

run-list

List task and agent runs, filterable by status, agent, tag or a search term.

Retry Agent Run

run-retry

Retry a finished agent run. Returns the run record for the retry.

Run Task

run-task

Start a one-off Skyvern task from a plain-language goal. Returns the new run; poll it with Get Run.

Get Run Timeline

run-timeline

Fetch the ordered blocks and thoughts of an agent run, with each block's status and output.

A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the workflow spec, carrying Skyvern's real ids.

{
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "name": "skyvern-example",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "agent-get",
      "uses": {
        "app": "io.w6w.skyvern",
        "action": "agent-get",
        "connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
      },
      "with": {
        "agentId": "<agentId>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Get Agent

    read
    agent-get
  • List Agents

    search
    agent-list
  • Get Browser Profile

    read
    browser-profile-get
  • List Browser Profiles

    search
    browser-profile-list
  • Create Browser Session

    perform
    browser-session-create

+15 more actions available

Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account, so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Skyvern, then fill in the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but nothing in it is specific to Skyvern. The Workflow tab is where this app's real ids are.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";

// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();

const envelope = await client.run({
  urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
  action: "agent-get",
  payload: {
    agentId: "<value>",
    // version: "<value>",
  },
});

if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
CLI
w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action agent-get --payload '{"agentId":"<value>"}'

Give an AI agent Skyvern — without giving it Skyvern's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.

One tool call
{
  "name": "w6w_invoke",
  "arguments": {
    "ref": "app:io.w6w.skyvern#agent-get",
    "input": {
      "agentId": "<agentId>"
    }
  }
}

Every tool names its target with a single ref. The app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the host resolves which of the caller's Skyvern connections to sign with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.

A durable workflow in one call

Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.

Health-aware discovery

Skyvern's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.

The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Skyvern itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).

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Health checks

Skyvern declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

service

Skyvern platform status

The `Skyvern API` and `Skyvern Async Workers` components on Skyvern's Statuspage; the web application component is reported as detail only.

dependency

API reachable

Unauthenticated GET https://api.skyvern.com/v1/version. A 200 carrying `{"version": …}` (or a 403 carrying Skyvern's `{"detail": …}`) proves the API is serving. Key validity is the derived `auth:*` check's job.

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