Show HN: WebCap – Reusable web capabilities for AI agents

Category: devtools

Tags: browser-automation, ai-agents, cli-tool

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 6, Utility: 6)

Web Cap is a local-first browser automation toolkit for AI agents, combining a CLI, browser extension, and reusable script registry to let agents inspect and interact with real browser tabs. Its innovative combination of script-first automation, user handoff observation, and success-gated script registration fills a niche gap for agent-oriented workflows, though it is early-stage with a small community.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, ai engineers

Repository: https://github.com/edgestorage/web-cap · TypeScript · Apache-2.0 · 5 stars

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