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      "category": "browser",
      "summary": "agent-browser is an open-source command-line tool from Vercel Labs that lets AI agents drive Chrome through accessibility-tree snapshots and element refs. It runs locally as a Rust binary and includes a stdio MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-browser",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-browser.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-browser.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agent-browser.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser",
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "stdio"
      ],
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "agent-browser"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "No account or key. The CLI and its daemon run on the owner's machine. Site logins are held in a local auth vault encrypted with AES-256-GCM, in saved state files (plaintext unless `AGENT_BROWSER_ENCRYPTION_KEY` is set) or in a reused Chrome profile. Cloud browser providers and the optional `chat` command need their own keys in environment variables.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free and open source under Apache-2.0, with nothing to buy and no hosted service. The optional `chat` command and dashboard chat bill the user's own Vercel AI Gateway key, and cloud browser providers bill separately (checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 158,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 43679,
        "npmWeekly": 2069828,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://agent-browser.dev",
      "llmsTxt": "https://agent-browser.dev/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "browser.control",
        "browser.debug"
      ],
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        "official",
        "local",
        "open-source",
        "browser",
        "cli",
        "mcp",
        "rust",
        "no-auth",
        "llms-txt"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-01",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 66.6,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 310,
        "ranked": true,
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        "categoryRank": 12,
        "methodology": "0.4",
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          "maintenance": 70,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 48,
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          "transparency": 61
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        ],
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          "confidence": "medium",
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        "bestFor": "Coding agents with a shell that want short commands and compact snapshots.",
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          "Accessibility-tree snapshots give each element a ref such as `@e2`, with `-i`, `-c`, `-d` and `--delta` to cut the output",
          "The stdio MCP server loads 29 tools by default and 158 with `--tools all`, each with a typed schema and `readOnlyHint`",
          "Domain allowlist, action policy, action confirmation and content boundary markers are documented with a threat model and known limitations",
          "19 tagged releases between 13 July and 1 October 2026, each with a changelog entry",
          "llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page at agent-browser.dev, plus bundled skills served by `agent-browser skills get`"
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          "The ten most recent CI runs on main, 1 to 8 October 2026, all concluded in failure. In the newest, Windows Rust tests and native end-to-end tests failed",
          "Version 0.38.2 with a Vercel Labs badge and no stable release or deprecation policy",
          "All security controls are opt-in. By default there is no limit on navigation, actions or output",
          "crates.io holds 0.19.0 from 14 March 2026, although the README lists `cargo install agent-browser` as an install route",
          "No SECURITY.md in the repository, and 840 open issues and pull requests, with most of the newest issues unlabelled and unanswered"
        ],
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          "Run `agent-browser install` once after `npm install -g agent-browser`. It downloads Chrome for Testing",
          "Take a fresh `snapshot -i` after any navigation. Refs survive same-document changes only",
          "Pass `--json` for machine-readable results and `--max-output` to cap page text",
          "Set `--allowed-domains`, `--action-policy` and `--content-boundaries` for untrusted sites. None is on by default, and the allowlist rejects `--profile`, `--cdp` and `--restore`",
          "Start MCP with `agent-browser mcp`, and add profiles such as `--tools core,network` only when needed"
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          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
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        "avgRating": 2.8,
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            "grade": "B",
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            ],
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            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
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        ],
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          "payments": 60,
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        },
        "provenanceScore": 53
      },
      "connect": {
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        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "agent-browser": {
              "args": [
                "mcp"
              ],
              "command": "agent-browser"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/browser.control",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/agent-browser"
      },
      "area": "developer",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Vercel Inc.",
        "domain": "agent-browser.dev",
        "domainRegistered": "2026-01-13",
        "domainNote": "The LICENSE file reads Copyright 2025 Vercel Inc., and the repository sits in the vercel-labs organisation on GitHub. agent-browser.dev has no security.txt (HTTP 404). vercel.com's is valid until 28 September 2027 and names HackerOne.",
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        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "No terms or privacy document governs this software beyond the Apache-2.0 licence, so `terms` and `privacy` are left out."
        ],
        "score": 53
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-browser.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "agent-browser",
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "vercel-labs/agent-browser",
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            "released": "2026-10-13",
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          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "agent-browser",
            "version": "0.39.1",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:31:09.580907828Z"
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        ],
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          "url": "https://agent-browser.dev/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T15:52:47.836474673Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://agent-browser.dev/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T14:21:03.886367052Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "agent-browser.dev",
          "registered": "2026-01-13",
          "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/agent-browser.dev",
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        },
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          {
            "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser/main/CHANGELOG.md",
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            "status": 304,
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    "answer": "agent-browser scores 66.6 (B) on agent readiness against Pomerado's 62.6 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Pomerado leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.",
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      "slug": "pomerado",
      "name": "Pomerado",
      "vendor": "Pomerado AI, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://pomerado.ai",
      "kind": "mcp",
      "category": "browser",
      "summary": "Pomerado builds and hosts deterministic tools that each do one task on one website, such as a flight search or adding to a cart, which agents call through a hosted MCP server or a REST API.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pomerado.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/Pomerado/pomerado",
      "license": "Pomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the `pomerado` npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "pomerado"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Public read-only tools that need no website login run with no account on https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp/keyless and on the REST API without an Authorization header, within a daily limit. Everything else takes a Bearer token, either an OAuth access token from the MCP client's browser sign-in (Google, GitHub or email) or a `pom_` API key. A key carries 1 to 16 of 11 permissions, expires after 90 days by default (1 to 365), can be rotated and revoked, and an integration key reaches one site's MCP with at most four permissions. An agent without a browser can get a 30-day key by device sign-in, which a person approves with a short code. Website logins are entered by the person on a protected Pomerado page, and Pomerado never returns a saved password to a script or a model.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free is $0 a month with 100 tool calls a day and 10 new integrations a month, Premium is $50 a month with 1,000 calls a day and 100 integrations, and Business is custom pricing with 100,000+ calls a day, per the pricing section of pomerado.ai (checked 2026-10-17). Keyless use of public read-only tools needs no account or card. Only runs that end with a result count, and failed builds count nothing. The yearly Premium price wasn't shown in the page we read.",
      "priceSummary": "$50 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms.txt, the OpenAPI document or the pricing section. Premium is paid through a Stripe Checkout link that a person opens (https://docs.pomerado.ai/api-reference/billing/start-a-premium-checkout.md, checked 2026-10-17).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 14,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": 36759,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-17"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.pomerado.ai",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.pomerado.ai/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://api.pomerado.ai/v1/openapi.json",
      "registryName": "ai.pomerado/pomerado",
      "capabilities": [
        "browser.control",
        "web.extract",
        "automation.actions",
        "automation.auth",
        "scraping.anti-bot"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "mcp-registry",
        "oauth",
        "api-key",
        "scoped-keys",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "no-key",
        "idempotency",
        "async-jobs",
        "webhooks",
        "audit-log",
        "open-source",
        "mit",
        "typescript",
        "no-status-page",
        "new"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-17",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 62.6,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 468,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1133,
        "categoryRank": 15,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 83,
          "maintenance": 81,
          "payments": 42,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 69,
          "transparency": 54
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-17"
        },
        "negative": -2,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "Misleading claim, -2. On 17 October 2026 the homepage (https://pomerado.ai) says \"Integrations for all sites\" and \"If a person can use the site, your agent can use it too\", and lists bank portals and government filings among supported sites. The docs say builds for bank and government websites are refused with `site_not_supported`, `details.category` `bank` or `government` (https://docs.pomerado.ai/errors#site_not_supported, https://docs.pomerado.ai/guides/build/overview)."
        ],
        "verdict": "An agent can find and run 46 public read-only website tools with no account, and signed-in calls get scoped, expiring keys, idempotency keys and a documented code for every failure. Pomerado is 12 days old, with no status page or security.txt, and its homepage lists bank and government portals that its builds refuse.",
        "bestFor": "An agent that repeats the same task on consumer sites or portals, such as flight searches, carts or order history, and wants a typed call instead of driving a browser.",
        "strengths": [
          "46 public read-only tools across 23 sites run with no account, key or card on the keyless MCP URL and the REST API",
          "API keys carry chosen permissions out of 11, expire after 90 days by default, rotate and revoke, and integration keys reach one site only",
          "Idempotency keys on runs and builds, with `write_status` and `outcome_unknown` saying whether a write may have happened",
          "Public OpenAPI 3.1 document with 84 operations, llms.txt, Markdown docs and 132 error codes, each with what to do",
          "Every keyless MCP tool carries readOnlyHint or destructiveHint, and the read-only run refuses a tool that writes"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "First released on 5 October 2026, with a team of two per its YC profile",
          "No status page or per-second rate limits, and the SLA guarantees listed for Business have no published terms",
          "No security.txt, SOC 2 report or bug bounty found, while it stores website passwords, authenticator secrets and recovery codes",
          "The homepage lists bank portals and government filings, but builds for bank and government sites are refused with `site_not_supported`",
          "Run tools take `input` as a JSON-encoded string over MCP, and there is no official client SDK"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Try public read-only tools at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp/keyless, then use `sign_in` and reconnect at /mcp with the key for writes, logins and builds",
          "Call `find_website_tool` with a query and `site_url`, and check `possible_matches` before starting a build",
          "Send an `idempotency_key` with every run that writes, and on `outcome_unknown` read the website back before calling again",
          "Give the person the job's `answer_url` for website logins and codes. Don't take passwords in chat",
          "Save a run's result when it arrives. It is returned once and erased after 60 minutes if unread"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 3,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 62.6
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 83,
          "maintenance": 81,
          "payments": 42,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 69,
          "transparency": 43
        },
        "provenanceScore": 65
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://api.pomerado.ai/v1/tools?query=search%20flights\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http pomerado https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp/keyless",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "pomerado": {
              "url": "https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/browser.control",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/pomerado"
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      "area": "developer",
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        {
          "item": "Premium plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 50,
          "note": "1,000 tool calls a day and 100 new integrations a month, billed monthly"
        }
      ],
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        "legalEntity": "Pomerado AI, Inc.",
        "domain": "pomerado.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2026-08-28",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://pomerado.ai/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://pomerado.ai/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/Pomerado/pomerado/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-17",
        "notes": [
          "The terms of service, last updated 4 October 2026, name Pomerado AI, Inc. as provider, are built on the Common Paper Cloud Service Agreement Standard Terms 2.1 with an automated access addendum, and choose Delaware law. The LICENSE names Pomerado AI, Inc.",
          "The privacy policy page embeds an iubenda policy (iubenda.com/privacy-policy/84434258). iubenda's robots.txt disallows /privacy-policy/, so the policy was not read.",
          "The MCP server answers at mcp.pomerado.ai and the REST API at api.pomerado.ai, both on the vendor's domain. pomerado.com is an unrelated church website.",
          "pomerado.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The README sends security reports to GitHub private vulnerability reporting on the repository.",
          "status.pomerado.ai has no DNS record, and no status page is linked from the site or docs.",
          "RDAP for pomerado.ai gives a registration date of 2026-08-28.",
          "The repository's CHANGELOG.md covers the open-source core. The hosted API's changes are listed under Changes in the API reference introduction, with one entry dated 15 October 2026."
        ],
        "score": 65
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado.json",
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        "slug": "pomerado",
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          "method": "get",
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          "samples30d": 24,
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        "pages": [
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            "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Pomerado/pomerado/main/CHANGELOG.md",
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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            "url": "https://pomerado.ai/privacy-policy",
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            "url": "https://pomerado.ai/terms-of-service",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
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        "mcpTools": {
          "url": "https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:40:22.563221747Z",
          "status": "auth",
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          "changedAt": "2026-10-17T22:40:22.563221747Z"
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    },
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      {
        "a": "MCP server",
        "b": "MCP server",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Vercel Labs",
        "b": "Pomerado AI, Inc.",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "stdio",
        "b": "HTTP",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "None",
        "b": "OAuth or key",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Free",
        "b": "Freemium",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "Apache-2.0",
        "b": "Pomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the `pomerado` npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
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        "a": "158",
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        "name": "Tools exposed"
      },
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "not listed",
        "b": "ai.pomerado/pomerado",
        "name": "MCP registry"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-10-01",
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      },
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        "a": "no document linked",
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        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
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        "a": "no document linked",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
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        "a": "",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pomerado.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pomerado.json\n- Best browser automation tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/browser/index.md\n- All 136 browser comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/browser/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### agent-browser (B)\n\nGood for: Coding agents with a shell that want short commands and compact snapshots.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 48 against 40\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 42\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 61 against 54\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: The ten most recent CI runs on main, 1 to 8 October 2026, all concluded in failure. In the newest, Windows Rust tests and native end-to-end tests failed\n\n### Pomerado (B)\n\nGood for: An agent that repeats the same task on consumer sites or portals, such as flight searches, carts or order history, and wants a typed call instead of driving a browser.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 78\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 81 against 70\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: First released on 5 October 2026, with a team of two per its YC profile\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | agent-browser | Pomerado | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 48 | 40 | agent-browser +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 86 | Pomerado +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 83 | Pomerado +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 67 | 69 | Pomerado +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 42 | agent-browser +18 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 81 | Pomerado +11 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 54 | agent-browser +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.6 · B** | **62.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | agent-browser | Pomerado |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | MCP server |\n| Vendor | Vercel Labs | Pomerado AI, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp` |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Pomerado Cloud is a proprietary service under Pomerado's terms of service. The minting core in Pomerado/pomerado and the `pomerado` npm package are MIT from version 0.2.0, and versions 0.1.2 and earlier were AGPL-3.0-only |\n| Tools exposed | 158 | 14 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.pomerado/pomerado` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-17 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |\n| Customer content may train models |  |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |\n| Popularity | 44k stars, 2.1M npm/wk | 37k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**agent-browser.** Snapshots with element refs, a 29-tool default MCP profile and opt-in domain allowlists, action policies and content boundary markers suit agent use. The project is at 0.38.2 with no stable release, the ten most recent CI runs on main failed between 1 and 8 October 2026, and every security control is off by default.\n\n**Pomerado.** An agent can find and run 46 public read-only website tools with no account, and signed-in calls get scoped, expiring keys, idempotency keys and a documented code for every failure. Pomerado is 12 days old, with no status page or security.txt, and its homepage lists bank and government portals that its builds refuse.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### agent-browser\n\n1. Run `agent-browser install` once after `npm install -g agent-browser`. It downloads Chrome for Testing\n2. Take a fresh `snapshot -i` after any navigation. Refs survive same-document changes only\n3. Pass `--json` for machine-readable results and `--max-output` to cap page text\n4. Set `--allowed-domains`, `--action-policy` and `--content-boundaries` for untrusted sites. None is on by default, and the allowlist rejects `--profile`, `--cdp` and `--restore`\n5. Start MCP with `agent-browser mcp`, and add profiles such as `--tools core,network` only when needed\n\n### Pomerado\n\n1. Try public read-only tools at https://mcp.pomerado.ai/mcp/keyless, then use `sign_in` and reconnect at /mcp with the key for writes, logins and builds\n2. Call `find_website_tool` with a query and `site_url`, and check `possible_matches` before starting a build\n3. Send an `idempotency_key` with every run that writes, and on `outcome_unknown` read the website back before calling again\n4. Give the person the job's `answer_url` for website logins and codes. Don't take passwords in chat\n5. Save a run's result when it arrives. 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