Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know Browser automation for agents went from research curiosity to default tooling somewhere between late 2024 and now. Microsoft ships an official Playwright MCP server, Google ships an official Chrome DevTools MCP server, Browserbase's open-source Stagehand framework wraps browsers in natural-language primitives, and Browser Use has become one of the most-starred agent projects on GitHub — north of 80,000 stars, per one 2026 comparison. On the model side, Anthropic's computer use — introduced in late 2024 and still labelled beta — and OpenAI's computer-use tooling, which grew out of Operator into ChatGPT's agent mode and a developer-facing API model, both drive interfaces by looking at screenshots and issuing mouse and keyboard actions. What hasn't closed is the gap…
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