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Each thread has its own web browser in the Browser tab of the tools panel (⇧⌘B). Use it to look at the app you and the agent are building, next to the conversation, without switching windows.

Opening a page

  • Type an address in the address field and press Enter. localhost:3000, myapp.test and other local addresses open over http; other addresses with a dot open over https; anything else searches DuckDuckGo.
  • Before a page is open, the tab lists the development servers running from the thread's folder. Click one to open it.
  • Clicking a server address under Local servers in the Context tab also opens it here.

The toolbar has back, forward, reload (stop while loading) and Open in your browser, which hands the page to your default browser. Links that open a new window open in the same tab. Downloads, mailto: links and other things the browser can't show go to the app that handles them on your Mac.

Copy, paste, cut, select all and undo (⌘C, ⌘V, ⌘X, ⌘A, ⌘Z, ⇧⌘Z) work in the page while it has focus. Click the conversation or press a shortcut to go back to the rest of the app.

The browser uses Safari's engine (WebKit). Pages share cookies and storage across threads, as in one Safari window with several tabs. Closing a thread's tab closes its browser.

Letting the agent look at the page

With the agent gateway on, agents get tools to open a page in their thread's browser and look at it: its structure, elements and their styles, the console, network calls and a screenshot. You can ask things like:

Open localhost:5173, check why the cart total is wrong, fix it and reload to confirm.

For safety, agents can only open and read pages served from this Mac: localhost, 127.0.0.1, [::1], and names ending in .localhost, .test or .local. If the thread's browser shows any other site, the tools refuse to read it. Apart from opening and reloading a page, the tools only read; an agent can't click, type or run its own scripts in the page.

The console and network calls are recorded from when a local page loads. A screenshot needs the Browser tab to be on screen.

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