Webcmd says browser agents waste tokens on navigation, not the actual task
heyshrutimishra · x · 2026-07-24
The author argues that the biggest cost in browser agents is not executing the task, but everything before the task: navigating pages, finding buttons, waiting for loads, and handling popups. They present webcmd as a way to teach agents site navigation once, compile that knowledge into deterministic reusable commands, and avoid paying the token cost for the same discovery repeatedly. The post says the project already supports 99 sites, is open source, and runs locally.
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