What is an agentic browser? A working definition
Every browser now has a chat panel. Some of them can take action. The difference matters more than the marketing copy admits.
Every browser now has a chat panel. Some of them can take action. The difference matters more than the marketing copy admits.
Browser history is one of the most useful local datasets you have, and one of the worst exposed by browsers. Here is the Maho CLI for it, with three queries worth keeping in your dotfiles.
Agentic browsers fail in four shapes. The shapes are old. The defenses are not magic. Here is what each looks like in the wild and how the Maho host responds.
Every agentic browser has three modes hiding inside it: chat, act, and refuse. The bug is when the user cannot tell which mode the assistant is in. Here is how Maho makes that visible.
Browser extensions are heavy and ask for permissions you never wanted to grant. Boosts are the lighter answer for per-site customization.