Steel, which can control Puppeteer, Playwright, and Selenium with AI agents to automate browser operations and even expose them as an API

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Steel launched as an open-source browser sandbox and API for AI agents that can automate Chrome via Puppeteer/CDP.
It supports session and proxy management, Chrome extensions, Selenium mode, and quick endpoints for scraping, screenshots, and PDFs.
The project pairs a lightweight local open-source version with a paid cloud service on steel.dev.
It aims to make browser automation easier to package as an API for scraping, testing, and other browser workflows.



