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Ship a browser agent on Browserbase

A production browser-agent stack with anti-bot resilience, session replay, and a kill switch.

Prereqs
  • Browserbase account
  • Node 20+

Browser agents go to production faster on hosted infrastructure than on self-hosted Playwright fleets. Here is the path that works.

Step 1: Pin a browser version

Non-determinism in browser-agent runs is mostly an environment problem. Pin the browser version.

Step 2: Add a kill switch

Every browser run needs a hard timeout, a max-tool-calls limit, and a human override.

Step 3: Capture session replay

Replay is non-negotiable. You will spend most of your debugging time watching sessions.

Step 4: Tune anti-bot handling

Budget for Cloudflare, Akamai, and PerimeterX-class defenses on real targets. Test against them.

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