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Plateau · emerged February 2024 · high December 2025 · +48% on the month before · 3 mentions on Trending in 14 days
Web browsers with an assistant or agent built in that reads pages and does tasks on them for you. Named by Perplexity: Introducing Comet: browse at the speed of thought (Jul 9, 2025). Also called Agentic browsers, AI web browser, Browser agents.
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Signals
Hacker News stories, last 12 months101 stories, -6% on the 12 months before
arXiv papers, last 12 months243 papers, +98% on the 12 months before
Wikipedia views, October 20263,553, +1% on a year beforeAgainst its high-39% from the high of December 2025
Product releases naming it4 since Feb 19, 2026GitHub repositories3,318| Signal | Reads as | |
|---|---|---|
| Hacker News stories, last 12 months101 stories, -6% on the 12 months before | 101 stories, -6% on the 12 months before | Adoption |
| arXiv papers, last 12 months243 papers, +98% on the 12 months before | 243 papers, +98% on the 12 months before | Adoption |
| Wikipedia views, October 20263,553, +1% on a year before | 3,553, +1% on a year before | Adoption |
| Against its high-39% from the high of December 2025 | -39% from the high of December 2025 | Decline |
| Product releases naming it4 since Feb 19, 2026 | 4 since Feb 19, 2026 | Adoption |
| GitHub repositories3,318 | 3,318 | Adoption |
Companies
Releases
4 releases since Feb 19, 2026| Name | |
|---|---|
| Sep 18, 20267 weeks ago | |
| Sep 18, 20267 weeks ago | |
| Jul 21, 20263 months ago | |
| May 11, 20266 months ago |
GitHub projects
3,318 repositoriesbrowser-use/browser-useOpen-source Python library for AI browser agents, plus Browser Use Cloud: stealth browsers and a hosted agent API.magnitudedev/browser-agentOpen-source, vision-first browser agentlmnr-ai/indexThe SOTA Open-Source Browser Agent for autonomously performing complex tasks on the webwebbrain-one/webbrainOpen-source AI browser agent for Chrome and Firefox (monorepo) 🧠 Planetary-Computers/autotab-starterBuild browser agents for real world tasksoutcrawlai/scoutScout: the open-source browser agent, by Outcrawl. Mirrored automatically from Outcrawl's own repository.
| Name | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| browser-use/browser-useOpen-source Python library for AI browser agents, plus Browser Use Cloud: stealth browsers and a hosted agent API. · Oct 31, 2024 2 years ago | Oct 31, 20242 years ago | 119,701 |
| magnitudedev/browser-agentOpen-source, vision-first browser agent · Mar 20, 2025 1 year ago | Mar 20, 20251 year ago | 4,138 |
| lmnr-ai/indexThe SOTA Open-Source Browser Agent for autonomously performing complex tasks on the web · Nov 30, 2024 1 year ago | Nov 30, 20241 year ago | 2,438 |
| webbrain-one/webbrainOpen-source AI browser agent for Chrome and Firefox (monorepo) 🧠 · Apr 6, 2026 7 months ago | Apr 6, 20267 months ago | 1,585 |
| Planetary-Computers/autotab-starterBuild browser agents for real world tasks · Oct 6, 2023 3 years ago | Oct 6, 20233 years ago | 1,007 |
| outcrawlai/scoutScout: the open-source browser agent, by Outcrawl. Mirrored automatically from Outcrawl's own repository. · Oct 13, 2026 4 weeks ago | Oct 13, 20264 weeks ago | 948 |
Related movements
AI agentsModels that plan and act in steps, calling tools and other services until a task is done.Computer useAgents that operate a computer the way a person does, reading the screen and moving the mouse and keyboard.AI searchSearch that answers with a written summary and citations instead of ten blue links, and the deep research agents that followed.
| Movement | Stage |
|---|---|
| AI agentsModels that plan and act in steps, calling tools and other services until a task is done. | Rising |
| Computer useAgents that operate a computer the way a person does, reading the screen and moving the mouse and keyboard. | Rising |
| AI searchSearch that answers with a written summary and citations instead of ten blue links, and the deep research agents that followed. | Plateau |
History
Tracking started: emerged February 2024, plateau, 3 other names recorded
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| Sep 24, 2026 | Tracking started: emerged February 2024, plateau, 3 other names recorded |
Sources: Curve: Hacker News story titles, Wikipedia pageviews and arXiv papers by month, refreshed Nov 1, 2026. Related entities from the other Glyph Ibis sources' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.