Show HN: Rotunda - A browser built for agents with simulated typing
Hi HN! Pierce here.Rotunda is a firefox fork primarily intended for agent use, which I’ve been hacking on nights/weekends.There was a [lengthy](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024859) discussion last week on how expensive computer use models are. The cost is going to drop eventually, but I think on some level it's still usually the wrong primitive. The web gives us access to beautiful structured formats, plaintext, etc... why throw that away if we don't have to?I realized at some point that for 99% of automations I just want agents to be able to control my Chrome instance. But that’s easier said that done: CDP (the Chrome automation protocol) leaks a ton of state about being programmatically controlled, either by toggling window attributes or by running `page.evaluate()` commands right in the page context. Plus if you look at an automation running it's pretty obvious what happens: the mouse jumps around, fields are filled instantly, etc.Rotunda tries to fix this. Its standout features:- Realistic simulation of mouse movements and keyboard commands, powered by a trained RNN on my own timing patterns from the last week. (still feel weird about opting-in to a key logger but whatever)- Doesn’t lie about its host specs, only fibs about some client side details. Stealth browsers are too easy to flag statistically when you’re adding noise to canvas pixels or audio pipelines.- It runs on your local device with a CLI or Playwright API accessible to Claude, Codex, or whatever your harness-de-jure today looks like.- Patches modern Firefox (150) with an agentic harness to keep this updated over timeMPL-2.0 on GitHub: https://github.com/monkeysee-ai/rotundaLonger writeup on the design choices: https://pierce.dev/notes/a-browser-for-agentsAlso check out the demo on the site! https://www.rotunda.sh/Pretty excited by how this turned out but we’re still super early. Give it a try and please flag any issues!
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