KittyBrowser, I built a web browser in your terminal
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I'm spending more time in the terminal, and with kitty graphics support now in Ghostty and Rex, I thought a real browser in a coding pane might be possible. It is.kb drives headless Chrome and draws each frame as pixels, so you get the actual page, not a text approximation.Key features: - Built in Rust, on headless Chrome - Keyboard shortcuts, mouse clicks, scroll, zoom, find, copy - Frames can go through the terminal itself, so it should work over SSH CLI, MCP and an agent skill, so your coding agent drives the same page you're watchingFrom its own pane, the agent runs things like: > kb https://news.ycombinator.com/What I learned: the best way to design a CLI for agents is to watch agents use it. Most of the commands exist because an agent got stuck. I ran multiple agent loops where agents would try to use the documentation, get stuck and itterate on the docs.Note this project needs a terminal with the kitty graphics protocol (Ghostty, kitty, WezTerm, Rex) and Chrome. Tested on macOS; Linux builds but needs testers. Windows PRs welcome.cargo install --git https://github.com/graiz/kittybrowser kb news.ycombinator.comMIT licensed. Feedback welcome.
HN · launched Nov 13, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 57%) · 0 views
Niche: specialized and developer web browsers · 83 launches, 9 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A terminal browser that drives headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol, captures screenshots, and renders them via the kitty graphics protocol is a clever but well-scoped developer tool that AI-assisted coding can produce.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, links
Concerns raised: calling it a browser is misleading since it wraps Chrome, unclear value of terminal if fully graphical
Competitors
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Attention rank: #205 of 319 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 365 days after the earliest competitor.
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