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Cloudflare builds a browser for bots, and honestly the bots seem grateful

hackernews / top 1d ago 8

Cloudflare announces Kitesurf, a browser built entirely on Workers (V8 isolates) designed specifically for AI agents rather than humans. By stripping away human-oriented features like tabs, themes, and pixel-perfect rendering, Kitesurf achieves significantly lower CPU and memory consumption than Chromium for common agentic tasks like screenshots and HTML extraction. The project was inspired by obscura (a Rust headless engine), uses WebAssembly-compiled Rust, and was largely accelerated by AI agents writing code against Web Platform Tests. It's available for free in beta via Browser Run.

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