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Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP

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Re: Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP

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At this point I'm fully down the path of the agent just maintaining his own tools. I have a browser skill that continues to evolve as I use it. Beats every alternative I have tried so far.

Do you experience any context pollution with that approach?

Writing your own skill is actually a lot better for context efficiency.

Your skill will be tuned to your use case over time, so if there's something that you do a lot you can hide most of the back-and-forth behind the python script / cli tool.

You can even improve the skill by saying "I want to be more token efficient, please review our chat logs for usage of our skill and factor out common operations into new functions".

If anything context waste/rot comes from documentation of features that other people need but you don't. The skill should be a sharp knife, not a multi-tool.

Re: Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool! Have you written more about this? (EDIT: from your profile, is that what https://relay.md is about?)

Sorry it took me a while. Hopefully this helps: https://notes.danielgk.com/Obsidian/Obsidian+E2E+testing+Cla...

Thanks! It does help, it's a great blog. You shld consider posting a "show hn".
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