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What's the dataset used for this task? How does one prevent data leakage on the experiment itself? Are we asking about past events to predict the future?


Why not grep the output to abother tool?


I would use whatever you are comfortable with, I wanted a similar tool so I coded my own. Smaller API so that understand what is going on and it is easy not to get lost

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207790



Can't we just iteratively inspect the network traces then? We don't need to consume the whole 2mb of data, maybe just dump the network trace and use jq to get the fields to keep the context minimal. I haven't added this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207790 , but I feel it would be a good addition. Then prompt it with instructions to gradually discover the necessary data.

But then I wonder, where the balance is between a bunch of small tool calls, vs one larger one.

I recall some recent discussion here on hn on big data analysis


Yes please, maybe there will be some solution that will fit the problem better! I recently released something similar, and because of the small API, I'm more comfortable using it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207790


My approach is a thin cli wrapper instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207790


That's also my approach, built quickly a cli for this with lightweight session management

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207790


What about --help? Isn't that a perfect parallel to discovery of available tools in an MCP server?


Yup. I’ve been using CLIs with skills that define some common workflows I use and then just tell Claude to use —help for understanding how to use it. Works perfectly and I end up writing the documentation in a way that I would for any other developer.


I've come to the same conclusion as op, created a CLI tool to work with Chrome sessions. It works well, and I'm planning to do some token comparison on this vs an MCP approach. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207790


Neato! https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser is a similar take here, and much better than the playwright MCP.


It does so many things though, very similar in the core though. I'm wondering what the token counts will be when I compare. Also the agent browser seems to support other browsers too, I only when with chromium


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