Browser Tools for AI Agents
4 parts in this series
Browser Tools for AI Agents Part 1: Playwright, Puppeteer, and Why Your Agent Picked Playwright
Playwright for AI agents explained 2026. Why Playwright beat Puppeteer for browser automation, how accessibility trees slash token costs, dev-browser for coding agents, Patchright and Scrapling for anti-bot bypass.
Browser Tools for AI Agents Part 2: The Framework Wars (browser-use, Stagehand, Skyvern)
AI browser frameworks compared 2026. browser-use vs Stagehand vs Skyvern: DOM-first vs vision-first architecture, LLM token costs per step, caching strategies, and the expect testing tool for coding agent validation loops.
Browser Tools for AI Agents Part 3: Managed Infrastructure and When DIY Stops Making Sense
Managed browser infrastructure for AI agents 2026. Firecrawl vs Browserbase vs Steel vs Bright Data vs Browserless pricing and features compared. Self-hosted vs managed cost analysis and when DIY stops making sense.
Browser Tools for AI Agents Part 4: Skip the Browser, Save 80% on Tokens
Save 80% on LLM tokens with content extraction 2026. markdown.new, Jina Reader, Trafilatura compared. Why feeding raw HTML to AI agents wastes tokens and how HTML-to-markdown conversion fixes your context window budget.