Browser Automation Built for Agents

Today we're launching the new Steel CLI and steel-browser skill, which brings browser automation redesigned from the ground up for agents. Agents handle code, reasoning, and tool use well enough. Then they hit a real website and everything falls apart. Login walls, dynamic content, anti-bot systems, session state that doesn't persist. A five-minute human task becomes a twenty-minute debugging session. This release targets that gap. It's also our first serious implementation of agent experience (AX) : building tools where agents get clear inputs, predictable outputs, and failures they can recover from. TL;DR New agent skill and CLI agent-browser integration Stealth: captcha solving & proxies for agents Run background browser sessions in parallel What this actually does The skill and CLI work together to make web tasks agents can finish reliably. Run multi-step flows through login and dynamic UI Pull clean markdown from cluttered pages Capture screenshots and PDFs as evidence Handle anti