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Cool to see another open source AI browser testing project! There’s a couple of others I’ve heard of as well:

Skyvern: https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern

Shortest: https://github.com/anti-work/shortest

I’d love to hear what makes Stagehand different and pros/ cons.

Of course, I have no complaints to see more competition and open source work in this space. Keep up the great work!

Yes! These are both phenomenal projects, and kudos to their authors as well. Stagehand is different in that it makes fine-grained control a first-class citizen. Often times, you want to control the exact steps a web agent takes. Our experience using other tools was that the only control you have over these steps in other tools is in the natural language prompt.

However with Stagehand, because it's an extension of Playwright, it allows you to confirm each step of the underlying agent's workflow, making it the most customizable option for engineers who want/need that

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