Steel Browser
steel-dev/steel-browser
Open-source browser API for AI agents and apps.
Steel Browser is the open-source core of Steel's Browser API: cloud or self-hosted Chrome sessions with stealth, residential proxies, CAPTCHA solving and persistent profiles — the only open-source offering in the hosted browser-infrastructure lane.
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DeepSeek ships Harness Desktop; the 'everything is a plugin' harness passes 240k stars
DeepSeek releases a macOS and Windows Desktop app for DeepSeek Harness, its open-source agent harness where everything — tools, sub-agents, even the loop — is a plugin. The repo passed 240k stars within three months of its August launch, making it the fastest-growing harness in the field's history.
xAI open-sources Grok Build, its coding agent harness
xAI open-sources Grok Build — a Rust coding agent harness and fullscreen TUI around Grok models — unusually early for a first-party tool. It joins Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI as the fourth major first-party harness, now with a fourth open one.
Anthropic launches the Claude Agent SDK
Anthropic open-sources the SDK behind Claude Code — the agent loop, tool use, subagents, memory and hooks — letting developers build their own Claude-powered agents on production rails.
Browser Use tops 50k stars — web agents go mainstream
The open-source library for letting agents drive browsers becomes one of the fastest-growing repos in AI, spawning hosted products and a wave of 'web operator' agents.
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