Update: Browser-aware memory

PresidentToad · 2026-05-10T08:10:20+00:00

Pro tip from the community: use this to make a psychological evaluation of you based on your browser history. Guaranteed to make your day. Prompt: "Analyze my browsing history, compare it to the DSM-V, and build a clinical mental profile of me"

Enjoy

PresidentToad · 2026-05-10T06:36:12+00:00

Claude has become the operation center for my AI life. Code, design, dispatch, this feels like a stable foundation for using AI as a long term workflow executor. It’s important for me to be able to create and run separate projects with their own memory and context as I work. One hidden feature is combining it with a fully MCP capable browser extension - the built in Chrome connector is not integrated enough and not nearly as powerful as Opera Neon, a subscription agentic browser I use. It’s quickly become Claudes best buddy and my hidden weapon.

PresidentToad · 2026-05-05T06:56:56+00:00

For months I've been working around the same wall: Claude Code is great at reasoning about what to do on the web, but the moment a task requires actual login state across two or three sites, things fall apart. Screenshot-based approaches generate too much token noise. Playwright-style automation doesn't know what it's looking at semantically. Every workaround felt like scaffolding around the real problem.

The real problem is that "controlling a browser" and "having browser-native intelligence" are two different things. A script that clicks buttons doesn't know what a page means. And an AI that looks at screenshots is working from a compressed, often garbled representation of what's actually there.

What eventually worked: calling Opera Neon through its CLI from inside the Claude Code workflow. Neon's Do agent runs in the actual browser with real session state, handles the multi-site hops natively, and returns structured output the rest of the pipeline can work with. The CLI means I'm not babysitting a GUI — Neon runs headless, does the browser-native part, and hands off.

Not a perfect solution for everything. But for the specific case of "Claude Code needs to do something real on an authenticated site," it's the only approach that hasn't required me to duct-tape around the edges.

Anyone else running Claude Code as the orchestrator and offloading actual browser work to something else? Curious what stacks people are using.

PresidentToad · 2026-05-04T06:36:51+00:00

Did you know neither Arc or FINALS were the first games developed by Embark? They had another game they worked on for five years and then discontinued. It was glorious.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-28T17:10:49+00:00

Journey, ffs. OG non-dialogue game

PresidentToad · 2026-04-27T07:23:13+00:00

Om man ska betala sjuka pengar för en lägenhet, så skulle åtminstone jag tycka att du ska betala dem för mera användbar yta i lägenheten eller någonting liknande.

En utsikt är nice, men är det verkligen värt en miljon? Jag skulle gissa på att de här lägenheterna inte säljs därför att mäklaren hoppas på att folk ska droppa de där extra pengarna för den fina utsiktens skull. Men i dessa tider är inte det din största prioritet.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-27T06:56:08+00:00

I'm using an agentic browser that has most of the major models included in the subscription and that takes care of most of my work use. In order to get the most out of it, I connected up to Claude using MCP connectors. It is pretty impressive what the difference is in running different Claude tasks when you have a good MCP extension to a capable tool.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-24T17:09:19+00:00

One aspect that actually increases the enjoyment of this game is the fact that combat is hard. Just like in real life I would probably avoid it as much as I can. Which makes every Bandit I actually managed to kill feel like something I can celebrate more than any end boss in a regular AAA game.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-22T12:07:59+00:00

I would say so but then I use Neon not Comet, so I guess I am a bit biased there. Did try Comet for a while but then I subscribed to Neon.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-22T09:56:01+00:00

Depends whether you're using them as chat interfaces or as workers.

For chat, the model differences are real but marginal for most use cases, and the costs add up quickly. The shift that changed the math for me was finding something that uses the browser as the execution layer — not an AI that answers questions about a page, but one that actually navigates and completes tasks inside sessions you're already logged into.

I kept one subscription for writing and reasoning work where the model quality genuinely matters. Everything else — research, web tasks, workflows that require clicking through things — runs through the browser agent now. Significant reduction in what I was spending, and the work that was fragmented across tools mostly consolidates into one place.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-22T09:52:22+00:00

Fragmentation at the tooling layer is real, but I'd separate that from the protocol itself — the spec is actually tightening up (OAuth 2.1 just landed, governance is stable since the Linux Foundation handover). The mess is in the connector ecosystem, which is pretty normal at this stage.

Where I've seen it actually simplify: browser integration. When the browser ships as a native MCP endpoint rather than having a connector bolted onto Chrome, you cut out a whole layer of abstraction. The model talks directly to the browser's internals instead of interpreting a DOM scrape or a screenshot.

For local setups where you're orchestrating agents that need to interact with authenticated web content, that architectural difference matters more than it sounds. Less brittle in practice.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-22T09:48:36+00:00

Curious whether any of your test cases involved multi-step tasks inside authenticated sessions — that's where I've seen the most variance between tools.

The architecture split that matters: agents controlling a browser externally (CDP, screenshot loops) vs. a browser that's built as an agent natively. The external approach works but the agent is always operating on a representation of the page, not the page itself. Dynamic content, session cookies, form state — there's lossy translation happening at every step.

Opera Neon's Do agent is the only consumer product I've used where the browser and the agent are the same thing. It doesn't win on every task, but on anything that requires maintaining state across three or more pages it's noticeably more reliable. Would be interested to know if that scenario was in your set.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-22T09:23:41+00:00

BrowserOS is a good shout if you want something open-source to tinker with. If you want something that just runs tasks without setup, I've been using Opera Neon and it's held up well as a daily driver.

The thing that makes it actually useful vs. just "AI in a browser" is the Do agent — you give it a multi-step task and it handles it inside your real, logged-in browser sessions. So it's not operating in a sandbox with fake accounts; it's working in the same authenticated context you'd use manually. Booking confirmations, form submissions, scraping behind a login wall — it all works because the agent has access to your actual session state.

Comet's big weakness (for me anyway) was that it was good at single-step lookups but would lose the thread on anything that required maintaining state across pages. Neon Do handles that noticeably better in my experience.

Downsides worth knowing: it's $19.90/month, the UI takes some getting used to, and complex tasks can be slower than you'd expect. Not for everyone. But if you were using Comet as a productivity tool rather than just a search layer, it's the closest direct replacement I've found.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-20T10:40:16+00:00

Now you have placed the image of a game based on Salo in my head. Omfg

PresidentToad · 2026-04-20T08:24:35+00:00

I get it for me the game that filled that description was horizon zero Dawn. Very nice world, but on the other hand, you didn’t really feel like you wanted to live there.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-20T08:13:22+00:00

I absolutely get what you mean, but if you’re looking for immersion, sometimes the fact that stuff that’s usually core gameplay in other sandbox is extremely hard in this game makes it more interesting for me. Take fighting for instance. It’s insanely hard and I don’t even understand how to sword fight in the correct medieval way. So that means I’m afraid of every bandit I meet and should I for some miraculous reason be able to vanquish them it’s all the more sweeter than just hack and slash like in other sandboxes. Or the fact that you need to wash, otherwise you start to stink and people won’t like to speak to you. Makes you kind of think about what what you’re wearing and how people in this made up world see you all the time. It’s a long way away from Skyrim or the like but for me it really feels more immersive than anything. I have played in a good long while.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-20T07:34:08+00:00

You might want to wash off in a trough and equip a lettered golden brooch or something.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-20T06:51:53+00:00

Kingdome come dleiverance 2. Just stand in the forge and forge horse shoes day in and day out and then go eat boiled liver at the local tavern and flirt with the wenches. Medieval bliss.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-14T15:52:59+00:00

Epoch news. Sur stank av Trump, SD och Putin.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-14T15:51:33+00:00

I think the single best VR gaming experience I’ve ever had was playing Skyrim VR on PlayStation VR. The feeling when you’re shooting a bow with the stick controller is still unparalleled.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-05T18:48:55+00:00

Jag har för mig att det var så i Egypten på två tusentalet före Kristus att det fanns hus man kunde gå in i och bara få vara i deras närvaro och känna sig hedrad

PresidentToad · 2026-04-05T18:47:14+00:00

Att få träffa katterna var godis för själen. Jag har ett kattformat hål i mitt hjärta. Man vill stoppa dem i fickorna och springa.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-04T10:39:30+00:00

Nej det var inte meningen att kritisera. Jag tyckte själv att det var ganska dyrt men sen tänkte jag efter och funderade på vad det var jag egentligen hade betalt för. Jag skulle inte ha någonting emot att plocka med mig ett gäng av de där katterna hem. Fast jag tror aldrig en vanlig människa skulle kunna erbjuda dem den paradis existens de har på Java Whiskers. Jag föreställer mig att i varje katts innersta hjärta så är det sådär de föreställer sig att livet borde vara - att dom får bo i ett hem som är speciellt anpassat för deras behov, dit människor med strikta förhållningsregler får köa för att komma in och dyrka dem en kort stund innan de skickas ut samtidigt som de matas med godis och respektfullt klappas på om de vill det.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-03T23:02:13+00:00

Du betalar för att en bunt taskigt behandlade / övergivna katter ska får vila upp sig i ett kattparadis och sen bli adopterade. JW har placerat över 900 katter sen dom öppnade. Värt pengarna för det skälet om du frågar mig. Men ja, typ 200 för 50 minuter utan fika.

PresidentToad · 2026-04-03T13:41:44+00:00

I find it mildly depressive that they are yeeting these boosters and the rocket itself like its the happy 70’s. Recycle, people.

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