How to Let an Open-Source AI Agent Do Your Browser Chores

Description and use

Scout automates repetitive browser tasks, achieving 92.5 % page coverage on a benchmark, using Outcrawl’s cloud service.

Problem

Repetitive website clicks consume time.

Outcome

On Outcrawl’s cloud, Scout achieved 92.5% page coverage on Browser Use’s 80‑site benchmark, outperforming the next best at 81.4%.

Workflow

• Install Scout with npm i @outcrawl/scout
• Set environment variables: OUTCRAWL_API_KEY, SCOUT_BASE_URL, SCOUT_API_KEY, SCOUT_HANDS_MODEL
• Create a task file (e.g., task.ts) describing the desired action
• Run the task with npx tsx task.ts
• Monitor execution and handle caps on steps, duration, and budget

Evidence

Scout is an open-source agent that uses a real browser to finish a task for you: describe what you need in plain words, and it reads the page, clicks, types and scrolls until the job is done, then hands back the answer.

Source

On Outcrawl's cloud, runs reached 92.5% of pages on Browser Use's 80-site benchmark, scored with Browser Use's own code; the next best reached 81.4% (three full runs, 7 October 2026, per the README).

Source

You need Node 22 or later. On the cloud there is no browser to install.

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