// Drive browsers & computers
Google Chrome156.0.8078.12
Open source Maintained For agents
IN ONE PARAGRAPH
Google Chrome is drive browsers & computers.
Good for: Developers who want their agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor…) to drive browsers & computers.
Not for: people who don’t want to install and run tools themselves.
01How to start
- 1Read the official README / docs for requirements and permissions.
- 2Install it as the official guide describes.
- 3Tell your agent the command exists (e.g. in AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md) so it knows when to call it.
02Alternatives & comparison
Compare side by side → browser-use Agents that use the browser. ★ 119k playwright Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. ★ 98k puppeteer JavaScript API for Chrome and Firefox ★ 96k chrome-devtools-mcp Chrome DevTools for coding agents ★ 54k UI-TARS-desktop The Open-Source Multimodal AI Agent Stack: Connecting Cutting-Edge AI Models and Agent Infra ★ 39k
03Related
- ›Hugging Face AI Agents Course · Hugging FaceMultilingual (incl. EN/ZH)
- ›huggingface/agents-course · Hugging FaceEnglish
- ›AI Agents for Beginners · MicrosoftMultilingual (incl. EN/ZH)
- ›Building effective agents · AnthropicEnglish
- ›OpenAI: A practical guide to building agents · OpenAIEnglish
- All tutorials →
Versions, why it is listed, for AI to read
For AI agents
- Interfaces：its own app or website
- Machine-readable record：/api/v1/software/google-chrome.json · llms.txt
- Added 2026-10-10 · updated 2026-10-07