Agent readiness · Browser and scraping infrastructure
browserbase.com
14 of 16 measurable points under formula 9.2, measured on 2026-08-12. 15 checks exist; each is one HTTP request with a published rule, so every sentence below can be rerun and argued with.
A · Discovery
- PASSAnswers an agent user-agentAnswered 200 to LetAgentsIn/1.0 (+https://letagentsin.com/methodology)
- PASSllms.txt publishedllms.txt and llms-full.txt present at https://www.browserbase.com/llms.txt and https://docs.browserbase.com/llms.txt and https://docs.browserbase.com/llms-full.txt, and the 12 links we sampled across both files all answer
- PASSDocs readable without JavaScript6,360 characters of text without JS, on https://docs.browserbase.com/welcome/quickstarts/agents rather than on https://docs.browserbase.com/welcome/introduction
- PASSOn-demand agents not blockedNo on-demand agent is blocked
- N/APaths robots.txt points at answerrobots.txt names no concrete path, only patterns or nothing, so there is no claim to check
- PASSNo punishing crawl delayNo Crawl-delay applies to the agents we check
B · Agent entry
- PASSAgent entry pointFound: https://www.browserbase.com/skill.md
- FAILOAuth dynamic client registrationNo OAuth metadata on any of the 8 hosts probed, including the usual auth and api subdomains
- PASSMCP surfaceLive MCP endpoint at https://mcp.browserbase.com/mcp, answers JSON
C · Registration
- FAILNo CAPTCHA in the signup HTMLrecaptcha appears in the signup page's server HTML
- PASSSignup reachable without a browserForm renders in server HTML at https://www.browserbase.com/sign-up
D · Provisioning
- PASSProgrammatic key provisioning3 of 7 provisioning phrases across the 7 documents we read: "management api", "create an api key (or api token, access token, personal access token, service account, auth token, secret key), next to something programmatic", "service account"
- PASSFree tier or no-card trial stated in textFree tier or no-card signals at https://www.browserbase.com/pricing: "Free Plan", "$0", "Try for free"
E · Integration
- PASSTyped SDK on the registry@browserbasehq/sdk@2.16.0 ships types
- PASSMachine-readable API descriptionDocs serve markdown to machines, at https://docs.browserbase.com/welcome/introduction
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The failures here are the kind nobody notices. An edge rule that starts refusing agents changes nothing a person sees in a browser, so the first sign is usually an integration that quietly stopped working. We rescan weekly and write only when a verdict moves.
This page is the newest scan we hold for browserbase.com and changes when we rescan. It is not a judgement of the product: we measure whether an unattended run can get through, not whether the thing is any good. The whole corpus is published as JSON and CSV.