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How to have an agent research and test sites in its own browser with Openbot

Let a persistent agent open, inspect, and control the embedded browser for web research or QA.

Credentials. If the agent logs into a site in the embedded browser, any credentials it sees stay in that browser session, so use test accounts only.

Who it is forA product or QA person who needs repeated checks of a web flow or a list of pages and wants an agent to do the clicking and reading.

The problemManual page checks are repetitive, and screenshots scattered across tools are hard to compare.

The outcomeAn agent opens the pages in OpenBot's persistent embedded browser, inspects them, and reports what it found in its conversation.

What you need first

  • A macOS 13+, Windows 10+, or x64/arm64 Linux AppImage machine, or an Ubuntu 24.04 host with systemd for the server
  • An account with at least one supported provider (Codex, Claude, Grok, OpenCode, Gemini, Cursor, or Cline), or a local model server such as Ollama or LM Studio
  • Willingness to run agents with danger-full-access and approvalPolicy never after the first-launch consent

Steps

  1. Install and open the OpenBot desktop app, then complete the first-launch consent.
  2. Create an agent and select a model and profile in its settings.
  3. Ask the agent in chat to open the target URLs in the embedded browser and inspect each page.
  4. Review the agent's report and any files it shared through managed file transfers.
  5. Archive the thread when the check is complete, or keep it to rerun later.

Prompt for your agent

In the nightly-labs/openbot repo, create an agent in the desktop app and ask it to open each URL in <url-list> in the embedded browser and report the page title and any visible errors. Expected output: a per-URL list of results in the agent's conversation. Verify that every URL was opened before reporting success.

Caveat. The agent controls the browser without per-action confirmations, so avoid pointing it at accounts or pages you cannot afford to change.

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