Letting Claude automate fleets of browser sandboxes
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Hey HN, wanted to share this cli and skill I built @ Steel (I'm the founder)I was trying to set up openclaw on railway and quickly bumped up against issues with a lack of browser access, a core component of the system. Agents like OpenClaw and CC are super good at using browsers but, similar to code sandboxes, they should be able to control these browser in the background, in parallel, without getting blocked by captchas.So I reworked agent-browser, the most popular cli for browser agents, to navigate Steel cloud browser sessions to they can run at scale and unhindered.It's a relatively crude implementation right now as we just embed agent-browser's binaries directly into the CLI and have a higher-level TS parser to route/modify commands, but it works surprisingly well; the demo video in the link worked first shot, I just copied/pasted for the video.GitHub Repo: https://github.com/steel-dev/cli/Would love any feedback or thoughts on what capabilities you'd like to see shipped here!
HN · launched Mar 3, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 71%) · 0 views
Niche: headless browser automation infrastructure · 31 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial The CLI wrapper and agent skill integration are easy to vibe-code, but the underlying fleet of stealth browser sandboxes requires complex cloud infrastructure and sophisticated anti-bot countermeasures.
What it would actually take: A production deployment requires a distributed container orchestration backend (e.g., Docker/Kubernetes on AWS or GCP) running headless Chromium instances at scale, paired with residential proxy networks and automated captcha-solving pipelines. The core technical hurdle is browser fingerprint spoofing (WebGL, canvas, audio, TLS fingerprinting, and CDP leak patching) to avoid detection by Cloudflare, Datadome, and Akamai. This requires specialized anti-bot evasion knowledge and high-concurrency cloud infrastructure engineering.
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