JOjohng·Oct 5, 2026
I see this posted on HN and it looks interesting. Would this work as a stopgap?
https://github.com/imshaikot/browsentic
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browsentic
An agentic browser harness: an AI side panel & orb in your own logged-in Chrome, Edge, Arc, Brave or even Firefox run by the agent/subscription you already use (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity). Free, open source, no API key. Also an MCP server.
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An agentic browser harness: an AI side panel & orb in your own logged-in Chrome, Edge, Arc, Brave or even Firefox run by the agent/subscription you already use (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity). Free, open source, no API key. Also an MCP server.
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2 sourcesShow HN: Browsentic Open-source Claude for Chrome alternative for any agent CLI
A personal agent harness lives in your existing browser, connects to your claude-code (or any other major harness codex or cursor-cli...) NOT the SDK API, exposes web-optimized tools to the harness - that's Browsentic.
A free, opensource (Apache 2.0) with rich capabilities alternative to Comet, BrowserOS, Browser-use, Claude for Chrome or nanobrowser.
The unique architecture of Browsentic makes it different from all other alternatives. It uses a loopback MCP server that spawns claude/codex/OpenCode/Cursor harness in a detached process. You can already guess, it is a bi-directional MCP, you can browse agentic through the browser harness or through any MCP client.
Browsentic doesn't require any new browser to install and not limited to chromium, it supports Firefox as well. By default you don't even need CDP to perform core agentic browsing
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Capabilities: core accessibilities (50+ compare to nanobrowser only had 20), custom skill, record-replay, schedule-monitoring-notification, resolves captcha autonomously, has it's own memory, voice orb over web-speech API, can sideload custom tools, platform + browser + agent agnostic
It is opensource, no API key, no telemetry & local first and actively maintained and yesterday was the first public stable launch (v0.8.0)
Currently I'm the only author but every & any contribution or suggestion will be more than welcome :)
Source: https://github.com/imshaikot/browsentic
Install guide: https://browsentic.com/install
Docs: https://browsentic.com/docs
Install video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8t4l9Q9BkE