Show HN: Veil – stealth browser for AI agents (real Chrome no Playwright)

Category: library

Tags: stealth-browser, ai-agents, cdp, mcp, typeScript

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Veil is a stealth browser automation runtime for AI agents that drives real Chrome over raw CDP without Playwright or Puppeteer, making it undetectable to anti-bot systems. Its agent-first design uses accessibility-tree snapshots for stable element references and human-like input, filling a gap for TypeScript-native stealth browsing in the AI agent ecosystem.

Target audience: backend devs, ai engineers, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/acunningham-ship-it/veilbrowser · TypeScript · MIT

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