23 comments

  • mattaustin 2 hours ago

    I submitted a remote code execution to the browser-use about 40 days ago. GHSA-r2x7-6hq9-qp7v I am a bit stunned by the lack of response. Any safety concerns in this project?

  • syl5x 3 hours ago

    That's pretty good, I've achieved pretty much the same thing using the vercel's agent-browser, but I've tried playwright and it worked easily as good. Its good for scraping, automating stuff in the browser.

    • reaganhsu 2 hours ago

      agent-browser uses playwright so it struggles with things like cross-origin-iframes - on the other hand, browser harness uses raw cdp, which is unrestrictive. It's discussed in this blog post! https://browser-use.com/posts/bitter-lesson-agent-harnesses

    • debarshri 3 hours ago

      I think the usecase here is to go beyond scraping. I think you can use it as a tool for agent harnesses and make it part of a larger workflow.

  • embedding-shape 2 hours ago

    > The new paradigm? SKILL.md + a few python helpers that need to have the ability to change on the fly. [...] What would you call this new paradigm? A dialect?

    It's called "agentic coding" for all I know, and isn't a new paradigm, the whole purpose with agentic coding is that it uses tools to do their thing, then those tools could be structured as the good old JSON schema tools next to the implemented runtime, or as MCP, or HTTP API or whatever, the "paradigm" is the same: Have a harness, have a LLM, let the harness define tools that the LLM can use those.

    • codethief an hour ago

      IIUC the point is that the agent has the ability to modify itself? So one possible term could be "self-evolving" or "self-modifying agent".

      • embedding-shape an hour ago

        Any agent that accepts "work in this working directory" (which AFAIK, all of them do) have had this ability, even the initial GPT2/3 experiments around matching LLMs with primitive tool-calling.

  • amelius 2 hours ago

    I was wondering when someone would finally build this.

    Anyway, of course this will be superseded by a harness that provides freedom to complete any task within the OS.

    • npodbielski 18 minutes ago

      What about security? What if it goes of the rails and remove /root I.e.? Yes that would be crazy because only madman would do that.

      Unless it would be airgapped no internet access machine with just monitor I.e.

    • reaganhsu 2 hours ago

      it will be crazy when someone builds this

  • SomewhatLikely an hour ago

    If I'm understanding correctly, this might be the first example of just-in-time agentic coding that I've come across.

  • Animats 38 minutes ago

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  • Amekedl 3 hours ago

    I’d call it “open washing”, but it looks cool. Good luck with it

    • LarsenCC 2 hours ago

      Curious why? You can just take this and run locally or deploy anywhere you'd like with any provider agent provider.

  • esafak an hour ago

    1. Can you elaborate on the self healing?

    2. Can you publish a tabular comparison on your README?

    3. What information gets sent to your API server?

    I'm struggling to see why I should use this over agent-browser; I have not yet run into the "cross origin iframes" problem. Is this more for the 'claw crowd?

  • mvelbaum 3 hours ago

    Sawyer Hood's dev-browser[0] allows the browser to write playwright JS code directly. Do you have cases where his approach fails and yours works?

    [0] https://github.com/SawyerHood/dev-browser

    • LarsenCC an hour ago

      PW is usually easier to detect. Using raw CDP is in our opinion much better for this.

  • doublerabbit 3 hours ago

    And that's how I woke up with an LLM roleplaying with itself while looking at porn.