Aside Skill — Development skill for Claude Code

aside-skill

A Codex skill for driving the [Aside](https://asidehq.com) browser CLI without losing work to a prompt nobody can answer.

Aside is a Chromium fork with a built-in browser agent, and its CLI runs that agent against your real logged-in profile. That makes it useful for anything behind a login, and it also makes it easy to lose work quietly: a non-interactive `aside exec` cannot answer a permission prompt or a question, so through 1.26.831 it waited forever, and since 1.26.902 it denies the call and moves on with exit 0. This skill encodes the rules that avoid both.

It also covers research behind a login, which is the thing Aside can do that a hosted web search cannot. The same X search URL returned 289KB with no tweet markup to `curl`, a sign-in wall to a browser with no session, and a full tree of results to a signed-in Aside repl. `aside-jun/references/deep-research.md` splits that work between Codex, repl, and exec and gives the recipes.

It is also checked against Aside's own guidance rather than written beside it. Aside ships an `aside-browser` skill as a string constant inside its daemon binary; every normative line in it was extracted and classified, 77 rows in total, and the result is in `devlog/_plan/260831_aside-official-parity/001_parity-ledger.md`. Three of those rows were places this skill was wrong and have been fixed. One is a place Aside's own advice, "ASK USER AS THE LAST RESORT", ends a CLI run with nothing done and is deliberately overridden. The rest of the official protocol is now carried here, so you should not need to read both.

Install

Only the `aside-jun/` directory is the skill. `devlog/` is research and planning notes; do not install it.

git clone https://github.com/lidge-jun/aside-skill.git

Then copy `aside-jun/` into whichever agent you use.

Codex

cp -R aside-skill/aside-jun ~/.codex/skills/aside-jun
ls ~/.codex/skills/aside-jun/SKILL.md

Use `"$CODEX_HOME/skills/aside-jun"` when that v