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Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by felarof »

hannob wrote: post #46

Okay, maybe this is a stupid question, but: what is an agentic browser? You seem to assume that everyone knows what that means. Is this a common and well-defined term that people use? I've never heard it. It would appear to me from the context that it means something like "web browser with AI stuff tackled on".

Thanks for asking - not a stupid question at all! I should have probably explained it at the top of my post.

By "agentic browser" we basically mean a browser with AI agents that can do web navigation tasks for you. So instead of you manually clicking around to reorder something on Amazon or fill out forms, the AI agent can actually navigate the site and do those tasks.

Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by felarof »

finolex wrote: post #52

This is cool! Congrats on launch! How do you store user data? Do you write to device? Curious if there's a basic.tech x nxtscape collab possible here where you can store each user's info to their dedicated PDS

Thank you! Yeah all user data is just stored locally on device.

Oh cool, will look into basic.tech to understand more.

Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by felarof »

mahoro wrote: post #53

This is great, I'd like to test! Is there any recommendations on which ollama models works best with this kind of tasks?

Qwen3 8B works pretty well. But for complex planning and navigation tasks, big models (GPT4.1, claude 3.7) are the still the best bet. We also let you use your own API keys for the big models.

Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by a2128 »

felarof wrote: post #43
thisislife2 wrote: post #40

I've upvoted to encourage your initiative, but I personally will not support any "AI" software unless it 100% runs locally and supports old platforms and hardware. Otherwise it is nothing but another conduit to get access to, and suck all my personal data for surveillance capitalism.

> 100% runs locally Thank you! We have ollama integration already, you can run models locally and use that for AI chat.

What models are actually recommended, and how useful is the browser when using them? "We have Ollama integration" isn't very useful when there's no information about which models you should use, what works with them, what doesn't, and honestly it feels disingenuous when projects market themselves as 100% private and local and cloud-free and everything stays on your computer when the intended use case is clearly to put an OpenAI API key and send everything to OpenAI

Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by wild_egg »

felarof wrote: post #51
hannob wrote: post #46

Okay, maybe this is a stupid question, but: what is an agentic browser? You seem to assume that everyone knows what that means. Is this a common and well-defined term that people use? I've never heard it. It would appear to me from the context that it means something like "web browser with AI stuff tackled on".

Thanks for asking - not a stupid question at all! I should have probably explained it at the top of my post. By "agentic browser" we basically mean a browser with AI agents that can do web navigation tasks for you. So instead of you manually clicking around to reorder something on Amazon or fill out forms, the AI agent can actually navigate the site and do those tasks.

Not to pull a "why should I use Dropbox when I have rsync" but why should we use this over adding a Playwright MCP to Claude Desktop or similar?

Does having access to Chromium internals give you any super powers over connecting over the Chrome Devtools Protocol?

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