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browser-harness

Let Claude Code, Codex or Cursor use your real Chrome, logged in as you. One prompt to set up. Open source, MIT.

2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
19.1KGitHub stars
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What it is

Let Claude Code, Codex or Cursor use your real Chrome, logged in as you. One prompt to set up. Open source, MIT.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:01:02 AM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by 6-hour interval3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-04-20 01:05:25 UTC to 2026-04-24 22:23:29 UTC.

012026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-20 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20, 00:002026-04-20 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-20 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-20 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-20 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-20 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-21 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-21 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-21 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-21 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-21 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-21 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-22 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-22 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-22 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 22, 06:002026-04-22 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-22 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-22 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-23 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-23 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-23 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-23 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-23 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-23 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-24 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-24 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-24 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-24 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-24 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-24 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 24, 18:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Apr 20, 00:002026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-20 06:00:00 UTC110
Apr 20, 06:002026-04-20 06:00:00 UTC2026-04-20 12:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20, 12:002026-04-20 12:00:00 UTC2026-04-20 18:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20, 18:002026-04-20 18:00:00 UTC2026-04-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 21, 00:002026-04-21 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-21 06:00:00 UTC000
Apr 21, 06:002026-04-21 06:00:00 UTC2026-04-21 12:00:00 UTC000
Apr 21, 12:002026-04-21 12:00:00 UTC2026-04-21 18:00:00 UTC000
Apr 21, 18:002026-04-21 18:00:00 UTC2026-04-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 22, 00:002026-04-22 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-22 06:00:00 UTC000
Apr 22, 06:002026-04-22 06:00:00 UTC2026-04-22 12:00:00 UTC000
Apr 22, 12:002026-04-22 12:00:00 UTC2026-04-22 18:00:00 UTC000
Apr 22, 18:002026-04-22 18:00:00 UTC2026-04-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 23, 00:002026-04-23 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-23 06:00:00 UTC000
Apr 23, 06:002026-04-23 06:00:00 UTC2026-04-23 12:00:00 UTC000
Apr 23, 12:002026-04-23 12:00:00 UTC2026-04-23 18:00:00 UTC000
Apr 23, 18:002026-04-23 18:00:00 UTC2026-04-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 24, 00:002026-04-24 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-24 06:00:00 UTC000
Apr 24, 06:002026-04-24 06:00:00 UTC2026-04-24 12:00:00 UTC000
Apr 24, 12:002026-04-24 12:00:00 UTC2026-04-24 18:00:00 UTC110
Apr 24, 18:002026-04-24 18:00:00 UTC2026-04-25 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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gregpr07·Apr 20, 2026Submission

Show HN: Self-healing browser harness via direct CDP

Creator of browser-use library here. At Browser Use we spend a lot of time thinking about the bitter lesson of agentic frameworks. A few days we did an experiment that combines replacing Playwright with CDP and giving the LLM complete freedom (building with autoresearch from ground up) to do whatever it knows from pretraining. I think this is the simplest way to give an AI control of a real browser: raw CDP, and let the agent write its own tools. ~600 lines total. Example: I forgot to implement upload_file(). Mid-task, the agent noticed, wrote the function, and uploaded the file. I found out when I read the git diff. I haven't found a task that doesn't work yet - but extremely happy to be proven wrong. Give it a shot. Open to criticism on CDP, agent frameworks, browser use, or whatever.
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