Definition
Plain language
A popular open-source AI agent that drives a real web browser to complete tasks.
As stated in the literature
A standard open-source screenshot-and-decide web agent harness used as a baseline in computer-use benchmarks; representative of pure-interpreter-style agent design.
Why it matters: It's a widely used reference implementation that other browser-agent designs are benchmarked against.
For example, with Browser-Use you can ask an agent to log into a site, navigate to a settings page, and toggle a preference, all by reading screenshots and acting on them.
Heard on the show
“JIT-Planner gets more than ten times the speed of Browser-Use — that's the standard open-source baseline that represents the screenshot-and-decide style of agent.”Episode 063 — Why Web Agents Are Slow: A Compiler-Style Fix for Computer-Use Latency