Maho turns the browser you already use into a Unix-friendly CLI: control tabs, search local browsing data, extract rendered pages, pipe them through jq or an LLM, and escalate to an agent only when you need one.
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.
A short, real walkthrough. Headless Maho on macOS, a single fetch, a structured extract using named extractors, then a batch run over a URL list. Where this overlaps with Playwright and where it does not.
MCP gave models a way to call tools. The browser is the right host. This post is how you write your own tool, register it, and use it from the side panel in under an hour.
A tab is a document. A document can be piped, filtered, and rewritten. Maho gives you the wire to do it from the terminal you already use.
