browser-use/browser-harness

Browser Harness | Self-healing harness that enables LLMs to complete any task.

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Forks: 1.7k
Open beginner issues: 9
Indexed issues: 41
Avg merge: 1d 11h
Merged PRs (30d): 34

Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 7, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
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Beginner labels: help wanted

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41 open issues indexed

ensure_private_dir() skips permission hardening on Windows, leaving the auth token and the exec'd agent-workspace unprotected Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

browser-use/browser-harness#813 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Retry captureScreenshot after compositor-idle timeout Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

browser-use/browser-harness#812 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Daemon fails to start from npm-installed package because `tsx` is missing Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

browser-use/browser-harness#808 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Cold-start auto-launch fails: daemon exits before the chrome-not-running rescue branch can fire Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

browser-use/browser-harness#786 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 10, 2026
uv-present-but-not-uv-managed installs still get a raw uv tool upgrade error Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

browser-use/browser-harness#716 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2026
AI Skill Shield scan report: browser-use/browser-harness (3 skills) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

browser-use/browser-harness#712 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Want to add your plugin to awesome-ai-plugins? Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 85/100

browser-use/browser-harness#710 · Opened Aug 30, 2026
`mac-approve` match the Allow sheet ("Allow remote debugging?" / "Allow") in non-English Chrome Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

browser-use/browser-harness#707 · Opened Aug 30, 2026
Daemon startup is not mutually exclusive: two concurrent invocations can both bind, and the second silently orphans the first Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

browser-use/browser-harness#692 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 29, 2026
`auth login`'s OAuth callback server can hang past its own timeout on a browser preconnect Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

browser-use/browser-harness#691 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2026
MCP server: `browser_switch_tab` advertises URL-substring matching that does not exist; `browser_cdp` uses a mutable default Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

browser-use/browser-harness#690 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2026
`browser-harness --update` crashes with `FileNotFoundError` when `uv` isn't installed Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

browser-use/browser-harness#688 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
`mac-approve` only works for stock Google Chrome — Brave/Edge/Canary/Arc users get "setup-required" for a toggle they already enabled Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

browser-use/browser-harness#687 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2026
`--doctor` reports "chrome running FAIL" and exits 1 for Brave and Chromium users, while the daemon works fine Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 73/100

browser-use/browser-harness#686 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
`http_get()` hard-codes UTF-8 and ignores the response charset — `UnicodeDecodeError` on any non-UTF-8 page Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

browser-use/browser-harness#683 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Telemetry uploads the user's script, stdout, and every helper argument — the redaction filter is applied to the wrong code path Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

browser-use/browser-harness#681 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Unit suite cannot run on Windows: 9 failures from POSIX-only test scaffolding Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

browser-use/browser-harness#680 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2026
No CI runs the test suite — `release.yml` publishes to PyPI with no test gate Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

browser-use/browser-harness#679 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2026
`SKILL.md` is committed as a symlink, so every Windows checkout ships a 14-byte skill file Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

browser-use/browser-harness#678 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
click_at_xy silently no-ops when the CDP Input domain wedges Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

browser-use/browser-harness#662 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
mac-approve requires Accessibility and has no fallback, hard-blocking unattended agents Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

browser-use/browser-harness#661 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Device authorization flow fails with "authorization problem" after email verification Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

browser-use/browser-harness#638 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Repeated 'Allow remote debugging?' approvals: daemon churn defeats the one-click-per-Chrome-run design Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

browser-use/browser-harness#631 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
scroll() hangs then raises TimeoutError on a background tab (0.1.9, Windows) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

browser-use/browser-harness#630 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
should fetch-use be listed as an optional dependency? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

browser-use/browser-harness#625 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
feat: identify parallel browser-harness workers in tab titles Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

browser-use/browser-harness#604 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
feat: tab ownership/protection for shared agent Chrome instance (agents close each other's tabs) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

browser-use/browser-harness#582 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Cold daemon against a windowless Chrome hangs 45s, then misreports as an unclicked "Allow remote debugging?" popup Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

browser-use/browser-harness#554 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
get_ws_url() should fail CLOSED for a named/managed daemon instead of scanning the default Chrome profile Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

browser-use/browser-harness#479 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2026
close_tab() on the current tab leaves dangling session state Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

browser-use/browser-harness#379 · 1 comment · Opened May 19, 2026
Support parallelism (via Subagents) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

browser-use/browser-harness#375 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 18, 2026
CDP WebSocket drops after first navigation — daemon logs "Connection lost", second Page.navigate times out Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

browser-use/browser-harness#370 · 2 comments · Opened May 17, 2026
UnicodeEncodeError with surrogate characters when accessing pages with Chinese content on Windows Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

browser-use/browser-harness#359 · 2 comments · Opened May 15, 2026
Design proposal: make tab/session lifecycle recovery explicit Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

browser-use/browser-harness#352 · 1 comment · Opened May 13, 2026
Feat: Add model-compatibility.json registry for self-hostable models Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

browser-use/browser-harness#329 · Opened May 9, 2026
fix: _open_chrome_inspect() fails on Windows — webbrowser.open() can't handle chrome:// protocol Open

good-idea

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

browser-use/browser-harness#290 · 2 comments · Opened May 4, 2026
Supported/verified models lists Open

good-idea

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

browser-use/browser-harness#235 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Setup challenges: Snap confinement and environment-specific blockers Open

compatability-issue help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

browser-use/browser-harness#191 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2026
Bug: start_remote_daemon fails, falls back to local detection errors, manual BU_CDP_WS workaround Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

browser-use/browser-harness#181 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2026
Cannot submit Ember.js modal forms — framework ignores all programmatic input Open

agent-capability-needed

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

browser-use/browser-harness#148 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 22, 2026
[UX] Chrome remote debugging is a hidden prerequisite — not mentioned in README Quick Start Open

in-progress

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

browser-use/browser-harness#107 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 19, 2026

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