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For every completed run, awaiting this cleanup PATCH delays provider.fetch() after the result is already available, so makeExecutor includes browser-teardown latency in Browser Use's benchmark score. If the teardown endpoint times out or returns a non-2xx response, the catch path also converts an otherwise verified result into a failed attempt. Treat stopping as best-effort cleanup outside the measured success path, while ensuring any detached rejection is handled.
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Confirmed and fixed in 406b3b0. The stop PATCH is now detached with its rejection swallowed, so teardown latency stays out of the window makeExecutor times, and a 500 or timeout from /browsers/{sessionId} no longer converts a verified result into a failed attempt. The browserStopAttempted flag went with it — nothing between the detached call and the return can throw, so the catch path no longer needs to know whether a stop was already tried.
Two tests cover it. One returns 500 from the teardown and asserts fetch still resolves with the body. The other holds the teardown PATCH open indefinitely and only resolves it after asserting the result; restoring the await deadlocks the suite, so neither is vacuous.
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Still holds after the 6c587d7 rewrite, with the code moved. Teardown is a finally block that detaches both the CDP close and the stop PATCH, so neither is inside the window makeExecutor times and neither can fail a verified result. One change from the earlier fix: the stop rejection is logged rather than swallowed, since a silent failure leaks a billable session.
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A completed Browser Use run only establishes that the agent finished; it can also finish after navigating to a target's 403, 404, or other error page. Returning a synthetic 200 violates the provider contract's upstream-status semantics and causes validateResponse to count such responses as successful whenever containsText is omitted, which is allowed by the public programmatic API. Extract or request the final navigation's HTTP status rather than treating every completed run as HTTP 200.
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Not changing this one: v4 has no HTTP status to extract. The published OpenAPI schema (browser-use-sdk@3.11.3, dist/v4.d.ts) has no statusCode / status_code / httpStatus field anywhere in it. RunSummary is id, task, title, model, contextLimit, status, result, error, sessionId, workspaceId, attachedFileIds, judgement, token counts, cost and timestamps, and RunEvent.data is an untyped map with no schema guarantee. The "or request it" option would make the benchmark's status signal LLM-generated prose, which is worse than a documented synthetic value.
Synthesizing here is also what the repo already does for vendors that do not report the target's status: context_dev, scrapingant, massive, scrapingdog and zenrows all report the vendor API's own transport status, and scrapingbee falls back to a literal 200. On the scoring risk, all 99 targets in tests.const.ts set containsText, so an agent that lands on a 403 page fails on text.
I added a WHY comment at the return in 406b3b0 recording why the 200 is synthetic, so this does not get re-litigated from the code alone.
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Reopening this one because 6c587d7 actually fixes it rather than documenting around it. The adapter no longer runs an agent — it creates a standalone CDP browser and returns response.status() from page.goto, so a target's 403 or 404 reaches validateResponse as itself instead of a synthetic 200. A test asserts a 403 body comes back as Status 403 rather than passing on marker text.
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For the fixed kroger target, the success sentinel is the serialized token "upc":"0001111041700" (src/tests.const.ts:648), but this task explicitly requests only visible text. That JSON syntax is not rendered page text, so validateResponse will reject Browser Use even when it successfully reaches and renders the product page, biasing its benchmark score; return an artifact that retains the raw/DOM content required by suite markers.
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The finding is correct and I've documented it in 272c2b8, but not the remedy — v4 has no raw-content artifact to return.
Checking the facts first: kroger is the only one of the 99 targets whose marker is source-only. Its containsText is the backtick-quoted "upc":"0001111041700" at src/tests.const.ts:648; every other target matches rendered page text. So the exposure is a floor understated by at most one target, not a systematic bias.
On the remedy, the published v4 schema (browser-use-sdk@3.11.3, dist/v4.d.ts) has no DOM or page-source channel. RunCreateRequest is task, model, modelParams, sessionId, workspaceId, browserSettings, agentmail, attachedFileIds, secretBindings, judge, maxCostUsd — no structured-output or raw-content option. The only outputs are RunSummary.result, a string the agent writes, and RunAttachment, a file the agent chose to save. Both are agent-mediated, so "return the raw DOM" would mean instructing an LLM to reproduce a full product page verbatim: unreliable, truncation-prone, and billed per token across 99 targets × 5 attempts. That trades a known 1-target gap for an unknown regression on the other 98.
The alternative — rewriting the kroger marker to visible text — is a suite-level change. It moves every provider's score on that target and breaks comparability with the checked-in official_results/, so it does not belong in a PR that adds one provider. Worth doing as its own change if we want the suite to be fair to text-output agents generally; Browser Use is the first provider of that class here, so this is really the suite meeting a new provider shape rather than an adapter bug. Happy to open that separately.
For now the README states the limitation and its bound explicitly, so the number is not read as a clean anti-bot result.
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Also fixed outright in 6c587d7, not just accepted. The body is page.content() now, so the kroger "upc":"0001111041700" token is present on a clean load. You were right that the constraint came from the visible-text task rather than from the API; dropping the agent for a CDP browser removes it. bing turned out to be a second instance — "openai - Search" is a title tag — and both are now pinned by a test.
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When the runner's timeout signal aborts an active run, this failure path first awaits cancellation with a fresh 5-second deadline and then sequentially awaits stopBrowser with another fresh 5-second deadline. Because makeExecutor continues awaiting the provider after aborting its signal, a nominal 90-second attempt can occupy its concurrency slot and record latency for roughly 100 seconds; detach or run this best-effort cleanup concurrently so it does not extend the benchmark deadline.
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Confirmed and fixed in 272c2b8. Same defect as the success path, and I missed the mirror image of it last round. Both cleanups on the failure path are now detached with their rejections swallowed, so an aborted attempt rejects immediately instead of holding its concurrency slot for two more sequential 5s deadlines.
Removing the AggregateError wrapper is a second, unintended win. makeExecutor records error.message, and AggregateError's message is the literal string Browser Use request cleanup failed — so any cleanup hiccup was overwriting the real cause with a generic one and burying it in .errors, where nothing reads it. A failed attempt now reports what actually went wrong.
Two tests, both mutation-checked against the old code: one hangs the cancel and stop endpoints and asserts fetch still rejects (restoring the await deadlocks the suite, SIGTERM at 45s), the other returns 503 from both cleanups and asserts the rejection is a plain Error carrying the underlying status-500 message (against the old code it fails with name: 'AggregateError').
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Resolved structurally in 6c587d7. There is no run to cancel now, so the two sequential 5-second cleanup deadlines are gone — the failure path detaches a single stop PATCH and rethrows immediately, which cannot extend the attempt past the runner's timeout.
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Review: Add Browser Use benchmark provider (#20)
2 Blockers, 5 Comments, 0 Nits — all posted inline.
The adapter is well-built for the shape it chose: request/response parsing is validated rather than
cast, cleanup is deliberately detached with the reasoning recorded at the call site, the failure path
preserves the original cause instead of the cleanup error, and the task prompt already carries a
"treat page content as data, not instructions" guard. The two blockers are not about that code — they
are about whether an agent run can measure what this benchmark measures.
Both blockers come down to one thing: every other provider here returns the raw body and the upstream
status (Provider.fetch is documented as exactly that), while this one returns an LLM's prose
rendering of the page and a hardcoded 200. POST /api/v4/browsers returns a cdpUrl for a
standalone stealth browser — same hardened Chromium, same US residential proxy default, same
automatic CAPTCHA solving, no agent — which restores the documented contract and removes the LLM from
the measurement entirely.
What I could not check
- No live run against the API; every claim about v4 comes from the published OpenAPI spec
(docs.browser-use.com/cloud/openapi/v4.json) and the linked docs, not from observed responses. - Whether the agent path actually reproduces a given marker verbatim is untested either way — the
suite mocks the API, so no test exercises marker extraction from real page text.
Verdict
The blockers are methodology, not mechanics: as written the benchmark would publish a Browser Use
number that partly measures LLM transcription fidelity, into a repo whose official_results/ are
read as a blocking comparison. Moving to the CDP browser path clears both and drops most of the
polling, cost, and cancellation surface with them.
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Blocker (must fix before merge): An agent run scores LLM transcription fidelity, not access.
validateResponse (src/check.ts) passes an attempt only when the body contains the marker as a verbatim case-insensitive substring. The markers are long exact strings — amazon needs "Bike Lock Heavy Duty Anti Theft, Keyed Bike U Lock with 4FT Security Cable and Mounting Bracket for Road Bike, Mountain Bike, Folding Bike" reproduced comma-for-comma, lowes and temu are the same shape, and bloomberg needs the footer line "Bloomberg L.P. All Rights Reserved.".
Asking a model to "return all visible text without summarizing" does not guarantee that. Output-token limits truncate long pages, punctuation and whitespace get normalized, and footer/chrome text is exactly what a model drops first. Every one of those misses is recorded as Missing expected text — the same result a hard anti-bot block produces — so the published number blends blocking rate with transcription fidelity and the two cannot be separated afterwards. It also makes the score depend on a vendor-default model that can change without any commit here.
Suggested fix: skip the agent entirely. POST /api/v4/browsers returns cdpUrl (BrowserSessionItemView) for a standalone browser on the same hardened Chromium with solveCaptchas defaulting true and a US residential proxy by default. Connect over CDP, page.goto(url), and return response.status() with page.content(). That satisfies Provider.fetch's documented "raw body + the upstream status code" contract the way browserbase already does, gives a real status code instead of a hardcoded 200, and removes the LLM — along with its cost, its polling loop, and its cancellation surface — from the measurement. Teardown stays the PATCH /api/v4/browsers/{id} call this PR already implements.
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Agreed, and rewritten in 6c587d7. The agent run is gone: the adapter now creates a standalone browser with POST /api/v4/browsers, connects to its cdpUrl with playwright-core, and returns page.content() with response.status() from the navigation. Same hardened Chromium, solveCaptchas on by default, US residential proxy pinned — no model in the path, so nothing between the page and the marker match.
That satisfies the Provider.fetch contract the way browserbase already does, and browser_use.test.ts can now assert a real marker against raw HTML instead of round-tripping a mock string.
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Blocker (must fix before merge): "understated by at most one of 99 targets" is not correct.
bing is a second source-only marker: containsText: "openai - Search" (src/tests.const.ts:579) is the document <title>, not rendered body text — the visible Bing page shows openai in the search box and the results, never the string openai - Search. g2 is very likely a third: "Best Emerging AI Software - Page 92" carries the - Page 92 suffix that marks a title tag rather than on-page copy.
So the bound is wrong by at least one and the method for arriving at it does not appear to have been applied to the other 98 targets. A stated floor in a published benchmark README gets quoted; it needs to be either derived per-target or dropped.
Suggested fix: if the CDP browser path in the other blocker lands, this whole note goes away — raw DOM passes kroger, bing, and g2 alike. If the agent run stays, replace the count with the enumerated list of source-only markers and say how it was determined.
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Correct on both counts, and the note is gone rather than corrected. With the CDP rewrite in 6c587d7 the body is page source, so kroger, bing, and g2 all pass on a clean load and there is no floor to state. The replacement note describes the browser path and says the score is independent of vendor model defaults.
The bing catch was the useful one — "openai - Search" being a title tag is not visible in the diff, and it is now pinned by a test asserting both it and the kroger token match against raw DOM.
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Comment (should fix): No maxCostUsd, on a metered LLM run with best-effort cancellation.
RunCreateRequest accepts maxCostUsd, and it is omitted here. A full suite is 99 targets times attemptsPerTest agent runs, each billing input and output tokens plus browser and proxy time, and the docs are explicit that a client-side timeout does not stop server-side execution. The cancel below is detached and .catch(() => {}), so a cancel that fails leaves a paid agent running with nothing recording it.
Suggested fix: send a per-run maxCostUsd ceiling so a runaway run is bounded server-side regardless of whether cancellation lands.
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Moot as of 6c587d7 — there is no agent run left to bound. A standalone browser bills $0.02/hour rather than per token, and the create call now passes timeout: 5 (minutes), so a session that escapes teardown self-terminates server-side instead of running out the 60-minute API default. That is a firmer ceiling than maxCostUsd gave, since it does not depend on a cancel call landing.
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Comment (should fix): Pin model so official results stay reproducible.
model is omitted, so runs take the vendor default — currently gpt-5.6-luna per the v4 spec. This repo commits official_results/, and a comparison table is only meaningful if a rerun reproduces it. As written, Browser Use's number can move because the vendor changed a default, with no commit in this repo and nothing in the result file recording which model produced it.
GET /runs/{id} returns model on the RunSummary, so the alternative is recording the model actually used alongside the result. Pinning is simpler. Moot if the CDP browser path replaces the agent run.
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Moot as of 6c587d7 — no model is selected because no agent runs. Reproducibility now depends only on the browser build and the proxy pool, neither of which this adapter can pin anyway.
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Comment (should fix): A 429 is scored as a benchmark failure.
Every non-2xx becomes a thrown Error that makeExecutor records as a failed attempt, so throttling is indistinguishable from an anti-bot block in the published number. That is a live risk rather than a theoretical one: the runner polls each in-flight run every 2s while concurrency attempts run in parallel, and the project budget is max(25, 2 x stored concurrency) requests per 5-second window — the docs note X-RateLimit-Limit=125 means 125 per window, roughly 25 RPS, not 125 RPS.
Suggested fix: on 429, honour Retry-After (project throttles also return retry_after_seconds) and retry the poll rather than failing the attempt, so a throttle costs latency instead of a false block.
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Moot as of 6c587d7 — the status-poll loop is gone with the agent run, so the only API calls left per attempt are one create and one stop. That drops request volume roughly an order of magnitude and takes the throttle-scored-as-block failure mode with it. Worth revisiting if a poll ever returns, but there is nothing to retry against now.
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Comment (should fix): A failed teardown leaks a billable browser silently.
Detaching the stop is right — the runner times fetch, and the WHY comment says so. Swallowing the rejection with no output is the part to change: the docs warn that a completed run does not stop its cloud browser, and browser sessions bill at $0.02/hour plus proxy data, so a teardown outage during a 99-target suite leaks a paid session per attempt with nothing to notice it by. The test at browser_use.test.ts:75 pins that silence as intended behaviour.
Suggested fix: keep it detached, but .catch((e) => console.warn(...)) with the session id so a leak is visible in the run log. Same for the failure-path stop below.
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Fixed in 6c587d7, in two layers. The detached stop now logs on failure with the session id and a note that it bills until its timeout, instead of swallowing the rejection. And the session is created with timeout: 5 (minutes) — above the 90s per-attempt timeout, far below the 60-minute default — so a leak self-terminates server-side even if the log goes unread.
A test asserts the warning fires and that the verified result still returns.
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Comment (should fix): Enumerating test files means the next one silently never runs.
Each new test file now has to be hand-added here, and forgetting it is invisible — npm test still passes, just without that file. It also guarantees a conflict with Add Apify benchmark provider, which the PR body says touches this same line.
Suggested fix: node --test "dist/**/*.test.js" so discovery is automatic and neither PR has to touch this line.
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Fixed in 6c587d7: node --test "dist/**/*.test.js". Confirmed it still picks up format.test.js — the suite reports 14 tests across both files.
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Comment (should fix): The suite covers cleanup plumbing, not the thing the benchmark depends on.
Four of the seven tests — this one, keeps a verified result when browser teardown fails (:75), rejects without waiting for failure-path cleanup (:170), and reports the underlying cause when cleanup also fails (:192) — assert detachment and cleanup ordering. That is a lot of weight on teardown mechanics, all of it against mocks, while nothing covers whether a returned body actually satisfies a containsText marker, which is the only thing that decides this provider's score.
The gap is not fixable with more mocks: the mocks return "Example Domain" and the assertion is that it comes back unchanged, which no adapter could fail. It is evidence for the blocker above — if the body is rendered prose, correctness cannot be tested here at all, whereas a raw-DOM body can be asserted against a real marker. Consolidating the four cleanup tests into one or two would also make the suite easier to read.
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Rewritten in 6c587d7. The four cleanup tests collapsed to two — one asserting the teardown warning fires on a 500, one holding the stop PATCH open to prove the return is not gated on it — and the space went to cases that can actually fail: a source-only marker checked through validateResponse against raw DOM, a 403 passed through instead of coerced to 200, teardown after a failed navigation, a create-browser 402, and a missing cdpUrl.
The marker test is the one your point was really about. It only became writable once the body stopped being model output.
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The agent-run adapter returned an LLM's prose rendering of the page and a
hardcoded 200. Scoring is an exact case-insensitive substring match against
markers that are long verbatim strings, so a model that truncated, normalized
punctuation, or dropped footer text produced "Missing expected text" — the same
result a hard block produces. The published number blended blocking rate with
transcription fidelity, and the two could not be separated afterwards.
POST /api/v4/browsers returns a cdpUrl for a standalone browser on the same
hardened Chromium, with solveCaptchas and a US residential proxy on by default
and no agent. Driving it over CDP returns page.content() and the navigation's
own HTTP status, which is what Provider.fetch documents and what browserbase
already does.
This also retires the surface the agent run needed: the status-poll loop, its
rate-limit exposure, run cancellation, and the per-run cost ceiling and pinned
model that a metered LLM run would have required. A 5-minute session timeout
caps a leaked browser server-side, well above the 90s per-attempt timeout and
far below the 60-minute API default, and a failed teardown now logs instead of
being swallowed.
Raw DOM also clears the source-only markers the note called out: kroger
("upc":"...") and bing ("openai - Search", a title tag) both pass on a clean
load, so the README no longer claims a floor.
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When browser creation or the CDP connection consumes part of the configured timeout, this starts navigation with a fresh timeoutMs; moreover, the runner's abort signal is no longer observed after the create-browser request. A navigation that completes after the original deadline is therefore counted as a success, while a stalled navigation can hold its concurrency slot for the provisioning/connection time plus the full navigation timeout. Use one deadline (and the caller's abort signal) across connection, navigation, and content extraction so the benchmark's configured timeout remains an actual per-attempt limit.
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Confirmed and fixed in 97f1e9c. You're right on both halves, and the second one is what makes it bite: makeExecutor aborts its AbortController at the deadline and then just awaits provider.fetch — it never races it — so the provider is the only thing enforcing the per-attempt limit. Every other adapter is a single HTTP call with { signal, timeout: timeoutMs }, so one call is one deadline for free. This is the only multi-step one, and it was spending the budget four times over.
There is now a single expiresAt computed on entry, and remainingBudget() is re-read before each bounded step — connect, navigate, and content extraction. Because each step gets only the remainder, the total cannot exceed the deadline, and an overrun throws instead of returning a body the runner would score as a success with an inflated latency. remainingBudget() also checks signal.aborted, so the runner's abort is observed after the create call rather than only during it. Connect had no bound at all before — it now takes the remaining budget through connectOverCDP's timeout, which meant widening ConnectFunction to (cdpUrl, timeoutMs). page.content() accepts no timeout of its own, so it is raced against the remainder with its late rejection claimed.
Four tests, each verified non-vacuous by mutation. Restoring the fresh timeout: timeoutMs on goto reds three of them; dropping only the signal.aborted check reds the abort test alone; unbounding page.content() hangs the suite outright, which is the point of the guard. Suite is 19/19.
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The 5-minute session timeout was a guess, and it was more than three times the 90s the runner will actually wait for an attempt (src/tests.const.ts). A leaked browser billed for minutes after the attempt that created it had already been abandoned. Round the attempt timeout up to whole minutes instead, clamped to the API's 1-240 range: 2 minutes at the default, and it follows a --timeout override rather than drifting out of step with it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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When the create endpoint returns a valid session ID but a missing or null cdpUrl—the response shape explicitly handled by the new test—parseBrowserSession throws before the assignment to session completes. The finally block therefore sees session as undefined and skips the stop PATCH, leaving the created, billable browser alive until its server-side timeout; preserve the ID from the raw response so this failure path can still stop the session.
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Confirmed and fixed in 97f1e9c. The throw in parseBrowserSession landed before the assignment completed, so finally saw session as undefined and skipped the stop PATCH on a browser the API had already provisioned.
It is split into parseSessionID and parseCdpUrl now. The id is read and assigned to sessionID first, then the CDP URL is validated, so a create response carrying an id but no cdpUrl still reaches teardown. The finally block keys off sessionID rather than the session object. A response with no usable id at all still skips the stop, which is correct — there is nothing to name in the PATCH.
You were also right that the existing test only looked like it covered this: rejects a browser created without a CDP URL asserted the rejection and nothing else, so it passed either way. It now asserts the exact request sequence and expects the PATCH to /browsers/session-2. Reverting to the old parse order reds it and nothing else.
Worth noting the leak was bounded rather than unbounded — the create call already passes timeout: sessionTimeoutMinutes(timeoutMs), so the stranded session self-terminated in about 2 minutes at the default. Still a real leak, and one PATCH avoids it.
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Benchmark readers cannot currently compare Browser Use with the other providers on the same bot-protected targets. Adding it closes that coverage gap without requiring a paid benchmark run as part of this change.
Summary
playwright-core—POST /api/v4/browsersreturns acdpUrl, and the adapter scorespage.content()with the navigation's own HTTP statusBROWSER_USE_API_KEY, glob the test script so new test files are picked up automatically, and cover session creation, raw-DOM marker matching, upstream status pass-through, and every failure path with mocked testsWhy not an agent run
The first revision of this PR used
POST /api/v4/runsand scored the agent's result text. Review found that this measures the wrong thing:validateResponserequires the target's marker as a verbatim case-insensitive substring, and several markers are long exact strings (amazonneeds a 140-character product title comma-for-comma;bloombergneeds the footer line"Bloomberg L.P. All Rights Reserved."). A model that truncated, normalized punctuation, or dropped footer text producedMissing expected text— indistinguishable from a hard anti-bot block. The published number would have blended blocking rate with LLM transcription fidelity.The standalone browser runs on the same hardened Chromium with
solveCaptchasand the residential proxy on by default, so no anti-bot capability is given up. Dropping the agent also retires the machinery it needed: the status-poll loop and its rate-limit exposure, run cancellation, a per-run cost ceiling, and a pinned model for reproducibility.It also clears the source-only markers the earlier revision documented as unscoreable —
kroger("upc":"...") andbing("openai - Search", a title tag) both pass on a clean load — so the README no longer claims a score floor.Test plan
npm run typechecknpm run buildnpm test(14 tests, both test files picked up by the new glob)BROWSER_USE_API_KEYwas available in this session, so every claim about v4 comes from the published OpenAPI spec (docs.browser-use.com/cloud/openapi/v4.json) and the linked docs, not from observed responses. Per CONTRIBUTING, a small provider-and-target smoke test should run before any billable benchmark — in particular confirming thatcdpUrlis populated on the create response rather than needing a poll.Related work
Add Apify benchmark provider is a separate provider concern. Both PRs necessarily touch
.env.example,README.md,package.json, andsrc/providers/index.tsfor provider registration, documentation, and focused test wiring; this PR contains no Apify implementation. The test-script glob added here removes one of those collision points.