Open-source LLM agent framework for browser automation
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What is Agent-E?
Agent-E is an open-source LLM agent framework for browser automation from Emergence AI, built on the AG2 (formerly AutoGen) framework. It uses a skills-and-agents architecture based on DOM parsing, without a vision model, to carry out natural-language browser tasks such as filling web forms, searching and sorting e-commerce listings, and running web searches. The project ships a FastAPI wrapper with an /execute_task endpoint for programmatic HTTP access and streaming results, and is available on GitHub under an MIT license with around 1.2K stars.
Our verdict
Agent-E's DOM-only approach avoids vision-model overhead but trails Browser Use and Skyvern 2.0 on the WebVoyager benchmark (73.1% versus 89.1% and 85.8% respectively). It suits teams that want an open-source, self-hostable framework to build on, though Emergence AI's own site now centers on a broader enterprise platform rather than the open-source project.
Categories:
Agentic automation tools give an LLM control of a browser to navigate, click, and fill forms toward a goal, rather than following a fixed script. They are newer and less predictable than selector-based scraping, but they handle sites and workflows that are hard to hardcode.
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How Agent-E compares
Browser UseBrowser Use is another open-source browser automation framework for LLM agents and outscored Agent-E on the WebVoyager benchmark, 89.1% versus 73.1%.
SkyvernSkyvern 2.0 combines vision and DOM-based automation and also outperformed Agent-E on WebVoyager, 85.8% versus 73.1%.
LaVagueLaVague, also open-source, is an AI agent framework for browser automation and offers a similar self-hosted alternative to Agent-E.
