# agent-browser Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Automate browser-based workflows using LLMs and computer vision to navigate complex websites without custom scripts.

Agent-browser technology (exemplified by Skyvern) replaces brittle, DOM-dependent scrapers with AI agents that perceive web interfaces like humans do. By leveraging Playwright and computer vision, these agents handle dynamic elements, multi-step forms, and unexpected pop-ups across any URL. For example, an operator can automate insurance claims processing or flight bookings by providing high-level goals rather than writing 500 lines of CSS selectors. It effectively turns the open web into a structured API for high-volume data extraction and task execution.

- Official technology site: https://github.com/skyvern-ai/skyvern
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 3
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Directed by Claude — Let AI use your App](https://bremen.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_rk1k-89-Avk)

An agent that operates our product through its own UI — logs in, opens menus, types, reads the screen. Three uses came out of that: it finds its own bugs while building, the runs became an end-to-end suite, and the same rig shoots our demo videos. The video I'll play is one of its outputs.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Bremen — 2026-08-14 — Bremen
- Public talk page: https://bremen.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_rk1k-89-Avk

### [Adventures in Dark Software Factories and Building Sundai Claw](https://boston.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_rYByyNllwL4)

I will share my adventures trying to build a software factory, and a solution that I landed on that I'm pretty happy with. It's a rapidly evolving space and it seems like every week there's a new project attempting to streamline the process of building software using autonomous AI coding agents. If you've read Dan Shapiro's "The Five Levels" post (https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from-spicy-autocomplete-to-the-software-factory/), you know about the Fanuc Dark Factory, the robot factory staffed by robots. It's dark because it's a place humans are neither needed nor welcome. As an example of how such a factory can be built, I'll share a concrete use case in building Sundai Claw. Sundai Claw is an OpenClaw agent that you can message via Telegram. You describe your software project in natural language and when you submit a request, the claw agent dutifully begins to create a Sundai.club project card, a Github repo, a spec doc and then builds and deploys the software. This happens completely autonomously, but we're exploring where appropriate human-in-the-loop steps would be helpful to steer the claw agent and refine the specifications before and during building.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Boston: March 2026 Meetup — 2026-03-30 — Boston
- Public talk page: https://boston.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_rYByyNllwL4

### [Playwright MCP vs CLI? Benchmarking for performance & effectiveness](https://denver-boulder.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_ZkszEZey4aY)

I benchmarked an agent using Playwright MCP vs Playwright CLI vs agent-browser. The CLIs were much more context efficient, but they were--surprisingly--also much slower! I dug into why that might be and the answer came down to tool calls, which turned out to be driven directly from the interface designs of each tool. The MCP used up a lot of the context window by returning all state information on every run. The CLI and agent-browser both returned much less information, leaving it up to the agent to directly query the information it needed. That meant less of the context window was used, but more tool calls were required and tool calls were the most direct corollary to timing. The biggest surprises were that context efficient != faster, and it _also_ didn't mean cheaper. ![](https://outpost.ranger.net/_astro/2-runtime-dots.RG7TW8g3_1jz1a2.webp) ![](https://outpost.ranger.net/_astro/6-tool-call-type-bars.CD3GEom5_Z2lR38P.webp) ![](https://outpost.ranger.net/_astro/9-cost-slope.CQX0e7Dr_1twtqz.webp)

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Denver Meetup - March 25, 2026 — 2026-03-25 — Denver
- Public talk page: https://denver-boulder.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_ZkszEZey4aY

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