Agent Browser vs BrowserSkill
Agent Browser (Vercel Labs) and BrowserSkill (Tencent) side by side on public data, as of Oct 10, 2026.
Agent Browser has 5.1x the GitHub stars of BrowserSkill (43.7K against 8,521). Agent Browser shipped 20 stable releases in the past 90 days. BrowserSkill shipped 18 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Agent Browser | BrowserSkill |
|---|---|---|
| Gid Score | 58 | 46 |
| Overall rank | #33 | #79 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 1.7M | — |
| Downloads, 7-day change | down 19.9% | — |
| Downloads, 30-day change | up 59.8% | — |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 43.7K | 8,521 |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 2 | 0 |
| Latest stable release | 0.39.0 · yesterday | 0.3.2 · 10d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 20 | 18 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free (OSS) | Free (OSS) |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| First released | January 2026 | June 2026 |
| Interfaces | — | — |
| Models |
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Agent BrowserBrowserSkill
Agent Browser
Browser automation CLI for AI agents
Pricing: Open source under the Apache-2.0 licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
Latest release 0.39.0:
- Added an experimental Obscura engine (--engine obscura), launched and cleaned up locally like Chrome with bounded startup and CLI/MCP support. Obscura still has accessibility and rendering gaps,…
- Added private CA trust for CLI HTTPS requests so read, install, upgrade and doctor work behind TLS inspection. --ca-cert now applies to them on every platform, the new --use-system-ca uses the…
- Fixed selector-scoped snapshots (snapshot -s) so elements under ignored wrappers are no longer printed twice and shadow root content of a selected custom element is no longer dropped
- Fixed --auto-connect to wait up to 30s while Chrome 144+ shows the remote-debugging prompt, so it no longer opens repeated prompts or fails with "No running Chrome instance found"
BrowserSkill
Let AI agents use your real, logged-in browser without interrupting your work. CLI + extension for browser automation across any shell-capable AI agent.
Pricing: Open source under the MIT licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
Latest release 0.3.2:
- fix(geometry): unify cross-frame coordinates and screenshot conversion | 统一跨 frame 坐标与截图转换
- refactor(observation): decouple DOM processing from capture orchestration | 解耦 DOM 处理与采集流程
- refactor(observation): unify cross-frame capture coordination and data ownership | 统一跨 frame 采集协调与数据归属
- fix(observation): validate DOM identity across capture phases | 校验跨采集阶段的 DOM 身份一致性