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Everything you need to know about browser automation

Guides, insights, comparisons, and reviews across Playwright MCP, Browser Use, Chrome DevTools MCP, coding agents, and the browsers they drive.

How AI agents connect to your existing browser and logged-in sessionsGuides

How to connect AI agents to your existing browser

The most-requested agent capability across forums and issue trackers, mapped honestly: four routes with their mechanisms and risks, the combined solution they point to, and the two questions that pick yours.

Aug 15, 2026 · 10 min readLast updated Sep 21, 2026
AI scraping behind login walls: digging past padlocks and login screensGuides

AI Scraping Behind Login Walls: X and LinkedIn (2026)

Scraping behind a login is three routes, not one: inject a session, reuse a real browser's session, or point a no-code tool at it. For X and LinkedIn, collect only what the signed-in account is allowed to read, record evidence, and never treat a login as permission to bypass controls.

Aug 07, 2026 · 10 min readLast updated Sep 21, 2026
Illustration of a cloud-shaped character holding an MCP sign beside a server rack inside a purple cloud, framed by a browser windowGuides

What is an MCP server? A practical guide for 2026

Most explainers list the benefits. Almost none tell you what a server costs you per step, or how to decide whether you need one. This one does both, using the protocol's own spec and its biggest maintainers' own words.

Sep 20, 2026 · 13 min read
Agent harness: what it is, how to build one, how to chooseGuides

Agent harness: what it is, how to build one, how to choose

Agent equals model plus harness. Three authorities currently disagree about where a harness ends and a runtime begins, so this starts by settling that, then builds one in forty lines, then looks at the part almost nobody writes about: what the agent actually sees on the web.

Sep 20, 2026 · 18 min read
Context engineering for browser agents: what an observation costsGuides

Context engineering for browser agents: what an observation costs

Almost every article on this term uses text-only examples. Across the top 24 results, 19 fetchable pages and 64,225 words, "accessibility tree", "screenshot" and "browser automation" each appear zero times. That is the gap this fills.

Sep 20, 2026 · 12 min read
A local model terminal beside a visible Chromium browser window that an agent drivesGuides

Browser agent with local Ollama models: setup and limits

A local model can drive a real browser, but only when tool calling, context length, and memory line up. This guide wires Ollama to Playwright MCP, Browser Use, and the ego (lite) ego-browser skill, then shows where local agents fail first.

Sep 19, 2026 · 14 min read
A laptop running a local model beside a visible Chromium browser controlled by an agentGuides

Browser Use with local LLMs: what actually works

Browser Use documents a local Ollama path, but local tool calling has a narrow margin. Here is the documented setup, the failure modes, and how to tell whether a run actually worked.

Sep 19, 2026 · 12 min read
How to test an MCP server before deployment: Inspector probes, schema validation, and a CI gateGuides

How to test MCP server quality before deployment: tools and steps

Ship an MCP server only after the Inspector proves it connects, exposes the tools you expect, returns portable schemas, and fails the build when any of that breaks. The layers, the commands, and the CI gate.

Sep 19, 2026 · 14 min read
Pixel-art illustration of two sword-clashing knights, one marked with the Manus logo and one with the ego (lite) mark, with smaller figures for the other browser-automation routes around themGuides

Best Manus alternatives in 2026: browser automation tools

Manus is a hosted agent with a browser extension, so the alternatives question is really about where the browser runs, where your logins live, and whether you can watch the run. Five documented routes, each with its limits, and the six questions that pick between them.

Sep 19, 2026 · 13 min read