The session page (Browsers › Sessions › Open) has a Take control button for admins and owners. After a confirmation it opens the live view with keyboard and mouse in a new tab: what you type and click goes to the agent's browser, which keeps its CDP connection. Use it when the agent needs a person: a login, a 2FA prompt, a captcha.
- Short-lived and audited. Each link is minted when you ask for it, lasts 10 minutes and writes
browsers.session.controlto the audit log with who, the session and the reason. The link itself is never stored. - View only means view only. The
live_urlof the session list and the embedded live view now drop keystrokes, clicks and clipboard at the browser service, not only in the viewer. Members withtechorreadonlyget403when they ask for control.
API: POST /v1/orgs/{org}/browsers/sessions/{id}/control. CLI: ctl browsers sessions control <id>. MCP: browser_sessions_control. See Take control.