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created: 2026-05-23 10:07
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modified: 2026-05-23 10:07
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type: note
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tags:
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- ai
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- tool
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- tools
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aliases: []
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---
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# [[AI Tools to try]]
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# 🌐 Pi-Agent Browser Tools Matrix
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| Extension | Command / Tool | Strategy | Context Footprint | Live Auth Session? |
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| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
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| **`pi-browser-harness`** | `/browser-setup` | Accessibility Tree (AX) over direct CDP | Minimal | **Yes** (Uses your active Chrome profile) |
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| **`pi-agent-browser-native`** (`@picassio/...`) | `agent_browser` | Native wrapper for `agent-browser` CLI | Optimized / Compact | Isolated Profile (Saves cookies) |
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| **`@amaster.ai/pi-browser-use`** | `browser_` tools | Wraps official **Chrome DevTools MCP** (`chrome-devtools-mcp`), `browser_` prefix | Moderate | Isolated default; **can attach to running Chrome** |
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| **`@bytesbrains/pi-textbrowser`** | `text_browser` | Headless DOM + OCR text maps (no image tokens) | **Ultra-Low** | No |
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| **`camofox-browser`** (via `@askjo/camofox-browser-mcp` or `camofox-web-search-pi`) | `camofox_*` tools | Standalone anti-detection browser server (Camoufox/Firefox fork) — REST API :9377 | Low (AX snapshots) | Cookie import + persisted sessions; VNC login |
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> **Verified 2026-09-08:** `pi-textbrowser` (old name) was **unpublished from npm 2026-07-21**; same project lives on as **`@bytesbrains/pi-textbrowser`**. Matrix updated to reflect real, currently-installable packages.
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### 🚀 Quick Implementation Snippets
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#### Option A: `pi-browser-harness` (Recommended for Authenticated Web Apps)
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Use this if you want Pi to look at sites you are already logged into (Jira, GitHub, Gmail) without passing raw API keys or passwords.
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```bash
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# 1. Install the extension in your environment
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pi install npm:pi-browser-harness
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# 2. Expose the Chrome DevTools Protocol port (Run in a separate terminal)
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# On macOS:
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/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222
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# On Windows:
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start chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9222
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# 3. Inside your Pi TUI, configure the profile connection
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/browser-setup
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/browser-profile default
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```
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#### Option B: `pi-agent-browser-native` (Recommended for Clean UI and QA)
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Use this if you want an isolated browser session dedicated specifically to searching docs or running end-to-end interface testing.
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```bash
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# 1. Install the core upstream CLI tool globally
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npm install -g agent-browser
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# 2. Add the optimized native package fork via Pi
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pi install npm:@picassio/pi-agent-browser-native
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# 3. Reload your environment variables and config
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/reload
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# 4. Prompt the agent directly to verify installation:
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# "Use the agent_browser tool to open https://example.com and take an interactive snapshot."
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```
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### 🦊 Option C: `camofox-browser` (Stealth Scraping / Bot-Walled Sites)
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Use this if you need access to pages that block normal playwright/headless browsers (Cloudflare challenges, bot detection) — e.g. heavy research scraping, YouTube transcripts, price/product research.
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- **What it is:** a standalone REST server (localhost:9377) wrapping **Camoufox** — a Firefox fork with C++-level fingerprint spoofing. *10.4K stars, MIT, very active (v1.14.0 Aug 2026 / npm 2.4.7), created Jan 2026 (young project).*
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- **Not a pi-native tool by default** — it's a server you run (npm/Docker/Fly/Railway), then reach from agents via its MCP server (`@askjo/camofox-browser-mcp`) or REST. There is a small Pi extension (`camofox-web-search-pi`) for the web-search side.
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- **Notable features:** accessibility snapshots ~90% smaller than HTML, stable element refs (`e1`, `e2`…), session isolation + persistence (`~/.camofox/profiles/`), Netscape cookie import for authenticated sites, VNC interactive login, YouTube transcripts (no API key), 15 search macros (`@google_search`, `@youtube_search`, `@amazon_search`, `@reddit_subreddit`…), screenshots, proxy + GeoIP, structured JSON extraction, Playwright traces, OpenAPI docs.
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- **NixOS:** explicit `CAMOUFOX_EXECUTABLE=/nix/store/.../camoufox-bin` support; otherwise postinstall auto-fetches the Camoufox binary. **Docker is the cleanest route on NixOS.**
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- **Caveats (assessed):** young + fast-growing repo (hype factor), ~200MB Camoufox binary, **crash telemetry ON by default** (anonymized, posts GitHub issues; opt-out `CAMOFOX_CRASH_REPORT_ENABLED=false`), 131 open issues, and it's a marketing vehicle for the "jo" AI agent. Overkill unless you actually hit bot walls.
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```bash
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# Option C quickstart (Docker — cleanest on NixOS)
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cd camofox-browser && make up # clone https://github.com/jo-inc/camofox-browser
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# connect from pi via MCP:
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# npx @askjo/camofox-browser-mcp (stdio MCP server proxying :9377)
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```
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### Understand Anything
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Turn any codebase knowledge base into an interactive knowledge graph
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https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything
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Skybridge MCP app builder
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### Babysitter
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source_url: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter
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**Enforce obedience to agentic workforces. Manage extremely complex workflows through deterministic, hallucination-free self-orchestration.**
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## flue framework
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This lets you make an AI Agent workflow which does not need a human to work with it. Seems good. Might need to re-think my set up.
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https://flueframework.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5cYS6KuyK8
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## Scraping python web scrapper
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Its good because it fixes itself when classes, divs etc change.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-uj7wk0LRI
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https://github.com/d4vinci/Scrapling
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## TencentDB Agent Memory
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https://github.com/TencentCloud/TencentDB-Agent-Memory
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**4-tier auto-memory for AI agents.** Captures conversations → extracts atomic facts → groups into scenarios → builds persona profile. Solves agent amnesia — the agent remembers your preferences, conventions, and past sessions automatically. 11K stars, MIT. v2 (Docker multi-service) in beta.
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⏳ **Wait for v2 stable.** Evaluate whether conversation-memory benefit justifies Docker overhead given we already have engram + codebase-memory.
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## HUNK - git differences viewer
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https://github.com/modem-dev/hunk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4fJbIF8WAs
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