Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agents(github.com/theredsix)

76 points by theredsix 6 hours ago | 20 comments

  • Retr0id 5 hours ago
    > As proof, ABP with opus 4.6 as the driver scores 90.5% on the Online Mind2Web benchmark

    And what does opus score with "regular" browser harnesses?

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  • appcustodian2 28 minutes ago
    how do you know when a page is "settled"?
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    • theredsix 16 minutes ago
      Good question! ABP keeps a list of all same/parent/sibling network request and wait for them to complete within a timeout. If the timeout hits, it'll still freeze and screenshot back to the agent. There's a browser_wait() that the agent can call with increased timeouts to wait for network requests + DOM changes.
    • nobrains 8 minutes ago
      load event or "DOMContentLoaded" event. No?
  • giancarlostoro 5 hours ago
    Interesting, I wonder if this would help with other projects too, one project that comes to mind is archivebox, I don't know if they still have the issue I'm thinking of, but archivebox eventually had the Chrome instances (as the meme goes) basically consume all available RAM. If by freezing execution this could stop that, it could be useful for more than just AI agents.
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    • theredsix 3 hours ago
      Yeah, I noticed CPU use goes to near zero during the pausing phase. You can also trigger pause via REST/MCP so a script can take advantage of these abilities as well.
  • gregpr07 4 hours ago
    Love it! From first principles: this kinda answers the "do we really even need CDP" I always have in my head building browser use...
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    • theredsix 3 hours ago
      Totally, I feel that CDP was designed for a different category of automations.
  • theredsix 6 hours ago
    Op here, happy to answer any question!
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    • sebmellen 1 hour ago
      Does it feel good to be botting HN with ads for your own product?

      I'm so sick of reading OpenClaw comments! No activity for 7 months, and then in the past day, five comments from an LLM pitching your tool. What are you doing man? This degrades the quality of HN so badly.

    • theredsix 2 hours ago
      Great insight! ABP exposes display resolution controls right now. I've noticed almost zero reCAPTCHAs during testing compared puppeteer stealth or other packages. Regarding the freezing mechanic, virtualtime is paused as well and the entire browser clock is captured so it would be very hard for a page's JavaScript to notice the time drift unless they were querying an external API clock.