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Show HN: Webact – token-efficient browser control for AI agents (GitHub) (github.com/kilospark)
1 point by kxbnb 48 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
I built webact while experimenting with browser control for LLM agents and kept running into the same problem: token usage.

Most tools wrap Playwright and return huge accessibility trees or DOM dumps, which gets expensive quickly. webact takes a simpler approach — it talks directly to Chrome via the DevTools Protocol and returns a small "page brief" instead.

It’s just a single JS file (~196KB), zero dependencies, and it uses your existing Chrome session.

Happy to hear thoughts.



How does it compare to https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser ? Which also provides token efficient way to interact with the browser.




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