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Applied AI·Agents

there is no API, so the agent takes a screenshot, clicks the button and types into the field, and breaks the day the layout changes.

Computer use / browser agents

Also calledbrowser agents

Draft summary, pending review

Agents that operate real interfaces: taking screenshots, clicking, typing, navigating pages. Powerful where no API exists, and brittle relative to API-based tools; current practice reserves them for the gaps.