Browser Tool

What Is This?

Browser Tool lets an Agent control a browser: navigate to web pages on its own, click buttons, fill out forms, scroll the page, and take screenshots to "see" what's currently displayed before deciding what to do next.

This capability is also commonly referred to as Browser Use or Computer Use in the industry. MaiAgent's Browser Tool is a built-in version integrated directly into the Agent — once enabled, it can be used right within a conversation without connecting any external services.

What Can It Do?

• Navigate & explore: Open a specified URL, follow links across pages

• Interact with page elements: Click, double-click, type text, press keys, scroll

• Visual understanding: Captures a screenshot after each action; the Agent reads the screen to decide the next step

• Multi-step tasks: Sequential workflows like login → search → filter → retrieve data

How Is It Different from Tools and Code Interpreter?

	Tools (API / MCP)	Code Interpreter	Browser Tool
Acts on	Backend services / APIs	Sandbox programming environment	Real browser & web pages
Can see the screen?	No (JSON responses only)	Can see sandbox output	Yes (screenshots)
Best for	Structured data queries, well-defined API calls	Computation, file processing, document generation	Services with a web UI but no API

Quick rule of thumb: The target has an API → Tools; you need to compute or generate files → Code Interpreter; you can only interact via a web page → Browser Tool.

When to Use

• Internal systems with no public API but a Web UI you can operate

• Scraping information from third-party websites that require login or interaction

• Automating multi-page, multi-step web workflows (search, filter, download)

• Anything "a person would do in a browser" that you want the Agent to handle automatically

Caveats

• Optimized for Claude models: Browser Tool relies on model capabilities for interpreting visual screenshots. It works best with the Claude series; other models may produce inconsistent results.

• Same-origin pages work best: Cross-domain iframes and pages with strict CSP may have limited interactivity.

• Execution takes time: Each step requires loading the page, taking a screenshot, and reasoning. Multi-step tasks will be slower than a single API call — design your scenarios accordingly.

What Do I Need to Do?

1. Go to Agent settings — Open the settings page of the AI Assistant you want to enable it for

2. Enable Browser Tool — Turn it on in the tools or advanced capabilities section

3. Use a Claude model (recommended) — For the best visual interpretation results

4. Test — Ask the Agent to perform a task that requires web interaction in a conversation, and verify that the browser panel displays and interacts correctly