🚨 Someone just solved the biggest bottleneck in AI agents. And it's a 12MB binary.
It's called Pinchtab. It gives any AI agent full browser control through a plain HTTP API.
Not locked to a framework. Not tied to an SDK. Any agent, any language, even curl.
No config. No setup. No dependencies. Just a single Go binary.
Here's why every existing solution is broken:
→ OpenClaw's browser? Only works inside OpenClaw
→ Playwright MCP? Framework-locked
→ Browser Use? Coupled to its own stack
Pinchtab is a standalone HTTP server. Your agent sends HTTP requests. That's it.
Here's what this thing does:
→ Launches and manages its own Chrome instances
→ Exposes an accessibility-first DOM tree with stable element refs
→ Click, type, scroll, navigate. All via simple HTTP calls
→ Built-in stealth mode that bypasses bot detection on major sites
→ Persistent sessions. Log in once, stays logged in across restarts
→ Multi-instance orchestration with a real-time dashboard
→ Works headless or headed (human does 2FA, agent takes over)
Here's the wildest part:
A full page snapshot costs ~800 tokens with Pinchtab's /text endpoint.
The same page via screenshots? ~10,000 tokens.
That's 13x cheaper. On a 50-page monitoring task, you're paying $0.01 instead of $0.30.
It even has smart diff mode. Only returns what changed since the last snapshot. Your agent stops re-reading the entire page every single call.
1.6K GitHub stars. 478 commits. 15 releases. Actively maintained.
100% Open Source. MIT License.
