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AI Agent Glossary

Browser agent

An agent that navigates and acts on websites through a controlled browser.

Browser agents use a driver (CDP, Playwright, an extension) to load pages, read the DOM or accessibility tree, and click, type and submit. They are the practical form of computer use for web tasks — research, form filling, purchasing, scraping. WebArena (812 tasks) and Mind2Web are the standard benchmarks. Key failure modes are dynamic layouts, authentication and anti-bot systems.

Source: WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents — Zhou et al., 2023

See the numbers behind this term: AI Agent Statistics 2026.