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webcmd-adapter-author skill: browser analyze example is missing the required <session> argument #217

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@ngaurav

What's wrong

~/.webcmd/skills/webcmd-adapter-author/SKILL.md:149 documents the recon step as:

Preferred: webcmd browser analyze <url> to get pattern, anti-bot signals, nearest adapter, and next step in one pass.

But the actual CLI requires a session argument first:

$ webcmd browser analyze --help
Usage: webcmd browser <session> analyze [options] <url>

Repro

Running the documented form fails immediately:

$ webcmd browser analyze "https://example.com/some/page"
✖ <session> is a required positional argument: webcmd browser <session> <command>

This is the very first command the skill's own runbook (Step 3) tells an agent to run, so any agent following the skill literally hits a failure before recon even starts.

Suggested fix

Either:

  • Update the skill doc to webcmd browser <session> analyze <url>, or
  • Make analyze tolerate a missing/default session the way browser init apparently does (that one worked fine without an explicit session in our testing).

Context

Found while a subagent built a new university-course-export adapter (Manchester) following webcmd-adapter-author end to end. Happy to share the full transcript excerpt if useful.

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