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AI · October 30, 2024

Lightweight browser automation powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Hey HN! I'm excited to show off Cerebellum, a new open-source tool designed to automate browser tasks using large language models (LLMs). Cerebellum is an LLM-based AI agent that interacts with web sites using mouse and keyboard interactions, much like you would. So it works on web sites whether or not they have an API. The only requirement is that you use a Selenium-supported browser like Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. It’ll even work on Electron apps with a bit of setup! Furthermore, Cerebellum is open-source! We’d love both your feedback and contributions. The GitHub repo is here:…

Lightweight browser automation powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet launched on October 30, 2024 with 10 votes, #1,177 of 5,185 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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In plain words

Cerebellum is an open-source browser automation tool that uses Claude 3.5 Sonnet to interact with websites through mouse and keyboard actions, similar to human browsing. It works with any website regardless of API availability and supports Selenium-compatible browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, as well as Electron apps. Designed for developers who need to automate web tasks, it operates without requiring API access and is built on MIT-licensed open-source code.

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From the sources

Browser automation system that uses AI-driven planning to navigate web pages and perform goals. - theredsix/cerebellum

A lightweight browser using agent that accomplishes user-defined goals on webpages using keyboard and mouse actions. Contributions to Cerebellum are welcome. For details on how to get involved, please refer to our CONTRIBUTING.md . We appreciate all contributions, whether they're bug reports, feature requests, or code changes. Browser automation system that uses AI-driven planning to navigate web pages and performfrom github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN! I'm excited to show off Cerebellum, a new open-source tool designed to automate browser tasks using large language models (LLMs). Cerebellum is an LLM-based AI agent that interacts with web sites using mouse and keyboard interactions, much like you would. So it works on web sites whether or not they have an…

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