The browser was our interface to data and commerce.

Agents are becoming the next one.

I've been using Claude in Chrome for months. Recently Chrome MCP too — research, scraping, content workflows.

dev-browser CLI is different. The agent doesn't see the page. It writes code to control it — faster, better for automation.

But all three still assume a browser. A page. A DOM.

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Meanwhile:

• llms.txt lets sites serve agent-readable content directly

• Cloudflare turned any website into an MCP endpoint

• Google shipped Universal Commerce Protocol — agents can browse catalogs, build carts, check out. Shopify, Walmart, Visa are already in.

• Stripe launched Machine Payments Protocol — agents transact through merchant infrastructure

• Coinbase shipped agentic wallets with 50M+ transactions

dev-browser is a bridge. But the destination has no browser at all.