TabRunner

TabRunner

You give the goal. It runs the tabs.
An AI agent that drives your real browser (your tabs, your sessions and your logged-in accounts) through any provider you choose. Describe a task in the side panel; TabRunner reads pages, clicks, types, and navigates until the job is done.

Named for what it does: it runs your tabs. You give the goal, it does the running in your browser, with your authority, while you watch.

Why

Most browser agents run in a sandboxed, logged-out browser. TabRunner runs in yours, so it can act on the sites you're actually logged into. And it's provider-agnostic by construction: no vendor lock-in, no relay, no account with us. Your API key (or the subscription you sign in with) goes straight from the extension to your provider.

Features

• Bring your own provider: 15 presets (Anthropic, OpenAI, Kimi, Z.ai, Qwen, DeepSeek, Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral, xAI, Ollama; Anthropic, OpenAI and Kimi each sign in with a subscription) plus any custom endpoint speaking the OpenAI or Anthropic wire format.

• Real trusted input: clicks and keystrokes go through the Chrome DevTools Protocol, so they are genuine trusted events, not synthetic JS dispatches that sites can ignore.

• Sees the page, not the HTML: the model works from a compact semantic tree ([ref=e12] button "Submit"): small prompts, stable refs, and sanitized, capped results. Passwords, one-time codes and card numbers never leave the page.

• Page-internals tools: when keystrokes won't land, the agent acts directly in the page (fill, evaluate); read-only network and console rings let it see a failing request or a script error itself.

• Guardrails that hold: you approve the plan before anything happens, and consequential actions (paying, sending, deleting) come back for confirmation. Automatic retry with backoff on transient provider errors, a step budget, truncation detection, and a Stop button that actually stops.

• Live run status: current action, elapsed time, and token spend while the agent works, Claude Code-style.

• Reasoning effort control: optional per-provider effort (none → max), mapped to each wire format; omitted entirely when you want provider defaults.

• Auto model resolution: leave the model on Auto and TabRunner runs the newest model the endpoint lists, showing you which one that is; pin a model and effort per task from the panel header.

• Remembers across runs: your standing instructions (AGENTS.md) and the agent's own notes (MEMORY.md) load into every run; a ## site: section loads only when a task starts on that site. Editable on the options page, off with one toggle.

• Skills: saved instructions the agent loads when a task matches: /skill new distills a conversation you just steered into one, /skill <name> runs one on demand, and skills tied to a site surface only there. Import one from a URL, GitHub owner/repo, or pasted markdown (SKILL.md-compatible); export as markdown to share.

• Runs on a timer: "every weekday at 9am, summarize my inbox", "at 3pm, check the delivery". Ask for it in the panel and approving the plan is the consent; the run fires later in a tab of its own and notifies you when it lands. The agent can pace itself the same way: schedule a follow-up, keep checking, cancel when the goal is met. Review and cancel them in Settings.

• Two-way MCP: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or any Model Context Protocol client can hand TabRunner a task and follow it to the answer, using the same browser and the same logins, labelled in your history with which client did it. The client says what it wants done and TabRunner's model does the driving, or the client drives directly when the job is small and exact. TabRunner dials out too: connect remote MCP servers and their tools join every run behind the plan gate (/mcp reports what's connected), and run events can POST to your own webhook. See docs/mcp.md. In Claude Code, the plugin sets it up in one line:

  claude plugin install tabrunner --marketplace tabrunner/tabrunner
  

• Speaks your language, matches your theme: English, Português (Brasil), and Español; light, dark, or follow the OS.

• Your data stays local: provider configs and history live in chrome.storage. There is no TabRunner server. See PRIVACY.md for the full picture, and TERMS.md for the terms of use.

Install

bun install
bun run build

Then chrome://extensions → Developer mode → Load unpacked → select dist/chrome-mv3. Click the TabRunner toolbar icon to open the side panel, add a provider (options page), and describe a task.

Works on Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc, Opera, and Vivaldi. Chromium-only by design: Firefox has no chrome.debugger equivalent (Bugzilla 1316741), which trusted input depends on.

How it works

side panel (React) ──Port──▶ background service worker ──▶ provider API (SSE stream)
                                  │
                                  ├─▶ snapshot: accessibility tree via chrome.scripting
                                  └─▶ actions: trusted input via chrome.debugger (CDP)

1. You send a task. The run adopts your current tab (or opens its own tab when there's no page to work) and snapshots its accessibility tree.
2. The provider streams a reply; tool calls (navigate, click, type, scroll, snapshot, screenshot, done) execute against the real tab.
3. Results feed back into the conversation until the model calls done or you hit Stop. One task runs at a time; the next submissions wait in a serial queue.

An open Port keeps the MV3 service worker alive while the panel is open; with the panel closed (after a background submit it closes itself) a periodic alarm holds it through long silences. Durable state is written to storage as it changes, and tasks keep working with the panel closed. Stop them from the Tasks band or by closing the driven tab.

Development

bun run dev           # watch mode with hot reload
bun run test          # vitest
bun run lint          # eslint
bun run compile       # tsc --noEmit (extension + daemon)
bun run deadcode      # knip
bun run icons         # regenerate extension icons + OG card from src/shared/logo.ts
bun run bridge        # run the MCP daemon by hand
bun run bridge:check  # end-to-end check of the MCP bridge, no Chrome needed

Domain-first layout under src/modules/ (agent, browser, providers, conversation), UI primitives in src/components/ (Base UI + Tailwind 4). See AGENTS.md for the full architecture and conventions.

Roadmap

Next up: domain policy (tell it where it may never go), skill waypoints (a skill that remembers the page's anchors, not just prose), and file upload. A Firefox version stays blocked because chrome.debugger has no equivalent there, so it's a rewrite of the driver rather than a port.

Full reasoning, open questions and what we've ruled out: docs/roadmap.md.

License

MIT © Gus