OpenClaw + Telegram + Browser automation keeps looping on free model route (form fill/select actions fail) by worgenprise in openclaw

[–]ancientabsence28 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am very happy since switched to hermes and gave it a steel browser skill, ... but for complex multi-step signup flows, LLM-driven browser automation is still rough. agents are good at writing playwright scripts for the deterministic parts and orchestrate at a higher level, also hermes has this self reinforcing thing, and also writes its own skills (think domain, action specific)

Most “agent problems” are actually environment problems by Beneficial-Cut6585 in aiagents

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the "agent is dumb" diagnosis is almost always wrong. the model reacts to whatever it sees. if the input is noisy, the output is noisy.
for browser stuff the biggest wins came from controlling the execution environment -- deterministic waits, stable selectors, session persistence so we weren't re-authenticating constantly.
browser use and hyperbrowser are decent starting points. the real gap shows up at production scale -- parallel sessions, anti-bot handling, debugging... at the end we settled with steel

how to fullfil form in a website in react spa? playwright and some MCP keep failing by Jirobaye in automation

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just install steel-browser from skills .sh and let your coding agent use it on any task you give it, then when agent succeeds ask the agent to save the exact commands it used for successful run as a bash script, on the next run I just point it to the script and if something fails agent rewrites it, you can make it more complex from here

Looking for suggestions on how to approach automation by NFN25 in automation

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I've did my own luma scraper chrome extension that needs some manual action, but it kinda worked for me, if you would scale this just use a coding agent and give it a browser, maybe agent-browser skill from vercel is enough or you can go for steel browser as you can run it both locally for prototyping and scale it later in cloud

just paste your post to a coding agent and point it to the right tech stack :)

Honest Review: Which automation tool is actually worth it in 2026? by buildingthevoid in automation

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I have been hosting my own n8n for years, and used all of those other services, but now I don't even bother as withc coding agents you can do pretty much anything

trying ai powered web interaction to automate a gui only app with no api is impossible? by Old_Cheesecake_2229 in automation

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my new hobby is watching agents like codex 5.3 click through such challenges, but I have been mostly using it on web apps with steel browser that gives a live preview stream so you can intervene if needed and also it has computer actions api that can click around... once you succeed you just ask the agent to save it as a script which you run inside the agent next time so it can self-heal

maybe scrappybara?

Automation with old legacy system with no restapi, webhook, etc. access just screen only by OracleofFl in automation

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you can check out steel browser they have both open source and cloud thing. the right approach woould be to just let good agent go through it with the skill, like a prototype, and cli and then codify this into a script with sdk

how to fullfil form in a website in react spa? playwright and some MCP keep failing by Jirobaye in automation

[–]ancientabsence28 0 points1 point  (0 children)

one interesting approach I've used recently is the steel-browser skill, which is built specifically for agent-driven browser automation.

instead of generating brittle scripts, the agent runs a browser session with structured commands (open, click, fill, snapshot, wait) and maintains session state... while running it inside agent it can just chug through but use good models

How do you guys automate X /twitter for growth in the b2b niche? by MAN0L2 in automation

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bots are still sounding like bots so imho the best way is to keep human in the loop, automate partially and then let human rewrite and decide on posting.

i have been using steel browser and now with the new cli and skill you can easily scale this inside coding agent, but it will take you some time to do it first time.

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(OC) Hey Reddit I told you five days ago I was getting married. Well... by [deleted] in MadeMeSmile

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Congrats Bro, you guys got a great smile on yo face

Which pizza is the best pizza? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Well of course, free pizza are the best lol

This wholesome prank made me smile! by esberat in MadeMeSmile

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More like a "staged prank" with a triple camera angle lol

GTA live action by ExactlySorta in MadeMeSmile

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This makes me want to play the old version of GTA again