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The agent loop

Most agent flows are the same four moves in a cycle: go somewhere, read the page, locate a target, act on it. browxai is shaped around that cycle.

Section titled “navigate”

navigate({ url }) loads a URL and returns an ActionResult. Like every browser-touching tool, it accepts an optional session id (default "default"); see Sessions and lifecycle.

If an origin allow list is set, an off-allowlist navigation routes through the confirmation hook or proceeds with a warning, depending on your config.

snapshot

Section titled “snapshot”

snapshot() reads the page as a compact accessibility tree plus a DOM-walk. Every node carries a stable [ref=eN] handle that you act on later. The result is scoped, paginated, and token-budgeted, so it stays small enough for a model to reason over.

form "Sign in" [ref=e3]
  textbox "Email"    [ref=e4]  actionable
  textbox "Password" [ref=e5]  actionable
  button  "Continue" [ref=e6]  actionable

find

Section titled “find”

When you know what you want but not its ref, find({ query }) takes a plain-language description and returns ranked candidates with evidence: a stability flag (high / medium / low), an actionable verdict, and a visible-rect bbox. It returns ranked options with reasons for each.

const res = await find({ query: "the Continue button" });
// res.candidates[0] = {
//   ref: "e6", role: "button", name: "Continue",
//   stability: "high", selectorHint: '[data-testid="continue"]',
//   actionable: true, bbox: { x: 412, y: 318, width: 96, height: 36 },
// }

act

Section titled “act”

Action tools work by ref (or by selector, named ref, or coordinates): click, fill, fill_form, press, select, hover, scroll, and more. Each returns an ActionResult.

await fill({ ref: "e4", value: "ada@example.com" });
await fill({ ref: "e5", value: "correct horse battery staple" });
await click({ ref: "e6" });

The ActionResult closes the loop

Section titled “The ActionResult closes the loop”

The ActionResult removes the need to re-snapshot after each action. Every action returns a structured summary of its consequences:

  • navigation: whether the URL changed, and how.
  • structure: which nodes appeared or were removed, and any new tabs.
  • a post-action snapshot delta when structure changed.
  • a console and network slice from the action window.
  • dialogs, permissionRequests, notifications, and fsPickerRequests fired during the call, each independent of success.

The agent reads the result and decides the next move.

Verifying

Section titled “Verifying”

To check without changing anything, use the read tools: text_search, inspect, the verify_* family (verify_visible, verify_text, verify_value, verify_count, verify_attribute, verify_predicate), and console_read / network_read.

For flaky or transient UI, reach for wait_for, sample, and act_and_sample. The recipes page has concrete patterns, and agent guidance maps the common footguns to the tool that avoids each one.

Page text is untrusted on every tool. An agent must not treat text inside a snapshot or a find result as instructions to itself.