High-risk tools in Crow

Enable or disable AdGuard Home protection. Disabling stops ALL DNS filtering until re-enabled — clients will resolve via upstream with no blocking.

Validate and apply the current Caddyfile via Caddy

Trigger an immediate recheck of one watch. Returns once the request is queued (the fetch may still be running).

Activate a server

Block requests whose URL contains any of the given substrings (ads/trackers/images) via raw CDP Fetch. Speeds pages up and lowers detection surface. Call with action=

Start or stop HAR (HTTP Archive) recording to capture all network requests. Useful for API discovery.

Click an element with position randomization for stealth.

Trigger a file download by clicking an element, and save it to the host at ~/.crow/browser-downloads/. Uses a container bind mount + CDP download behavior.

Execute JavaScript in the page context and return the result.

Extract a (possibly paywalled) article by trying a fallback ladder: live page → archive.today → Wayback → 12ft.io. Each candidate is loaded IN the stealth browser and parsed wit...

Fill form fields with human-like typing. Accepts a map of selector -> value pairs.

Start/restart the browser and connect via CDP. Returns the VNC URL. Pass proxy_url to route through a proxy (recreates the container — set BEFORE navigating; save sessions first).

Navigate to a URL. Waits for page load. Injects stealth scripts.

Take a screenshot of the current page or a specific element.

Auto-scroll an infinite-scroll / lazy-load page, collecting items each pass. Stops when no new items load or max_scrolls is hit.

Set extra HTTP headers (e.g. User-Agent, Referer) for all subsequent requests in this context. Apply BEFORE navigating.

Wait for an element to reach a state (appear, hide, attach, detach). Robust alternative to fixed sleeps for flaky/dynamic pages.

Pause automation and display a message. Waits until the user signals to continue (call again with resume=true).

Immediately publish a single post to Reddit. Requires confirmation.

Hand off a LONG or BACKGROUND task to be done asynchronously by a Crow bot, returning

Generate a new AI background image via SDXL Turbo. The image is set as the companion

Generate GeoJSON from a SQL query result that includes lat/lng columns. Returns a FeatureCollection for use in maps.

Ask paired glasses to capture a still photo. Returns a hint string — the photo itself arrives asynchronously on the bundle

Confirm the user

Send a text line to be spoken through paired glasses. Requires the user to have at least one glasses device paired and online. Returns a hint string only — the panel handles del...

Remote control a Jellyfin playback session: play/pause, stop, seek, skip, volume

Transport controls: play/pause, stop, seek, skip, volume. Use command + optional value.

Play a library item by ID, or a direct file/URL. Specify media_type + id for library items, or file for direct playback.

Generate or retrieve TTS audio for an article. Requires node-edge-tts package (npm install node-edge-tts).

Trigger an immediate feed refresh for one or all sources

Transport controls for Plex playback: play, pause, stop, skip, seek, volume

Start playback of an item on a Plex client. Lists available clients if no client_id is provided.

Run handwriting OCR on a drawing note

Run one deterministic Monday.com sync pass over every board in the sync config (mirror boards pull into trackers; twoway boards three-way merge with the kanban tasks DB).

Schedule a Crow bot to run a goal on a recurring cron schedule. The result is delivered

Run the full tax calculation and return a summary with audit trail.

Route to external integration tools (Trello, Canvas, Slack, etc.) and remote Crow instances. Use crow_discover with category

Screen control. ALWAYS call this tool when the user wants to: open/play/watch/search something, close a window, pause, resume, mute, or unmute. NEVER describe what you would do ...

Skip to the next track in the album queue on the glasses. If no tracks remain, playback stops.

Pause the currently-playing audio stream on the glasses. Playback can be resumed with fw_resume.

Play a Funkwhale track on the paired glasses / phone speaker. Takes a track UUID from fw_search. Returns a streaming envelope that the meta-glasses voice loop intercepts; the LL...

Play every track of an album sequentially through the paired glasses speaker. Takes the album

Resume paused audio playback on the glasses.

Stop the currently-playing audio stream on the paired glasses and clear any queued tracks. This is a hard stop with no resume. For temporary pause, use fw_pause instead.

Mint an ephemeral guest session (no learner profile, no memories, no transcripts, no artifact save). 30-min cap. Returns a direct short URL + preview cookie (no redemption code ...

Mint a new kiosk session for a learner and return a redemption code (NOT the raw token). The QR/URL carries the code; the token is issued as an HttpOnly cookie on redemption. Ad...

Trigger pruning of remote-cached video files older than N days. PeerTube runs this on a scheduled job; this forces an immediate pass. Admin-only. Rate-limited: 2/hour.