
Browser Automation That Survives UI Updates
If you've ever built browser automation, you know the pain. You spend hours crafting the perfect script, testing every selector, handling edge cases—and then the website updates. Suddenly your automation breaks. Buttons moved. CSS classes changed. Your carefully constructed house of cards collapses. There's a better way. The Root Problem Traditional automation describes how to do things, not what needs to be done. When you write: await page . click ( ' #submit-btn ' ); You're not saying "submit the form." You're saying "click the element with ID submit-btn." When that ID changes, your script breaks—even though the goal (submitting the form) hasn't changed. Intent Over Implementation What if instead of prescribing exact steps, you could describe the goal and let the AI figure out the details? That's the approach behind SkillForge —a tool that captures intent rather than mechanical implementation. Record : Perform any web task while recording your screen. Extract : AI analyzes the record
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