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Technique

Dev tools first, browser automation last

Talk to a service's real API before making an AI click around a website.

A second brain the AI can read

how it works

Lift bearer tokens/endpoints from devtools and call the API; browser automation was fragile and wasted hours.

Technique: A pattern or hard-won lesson, written down so it isn't learned twice.

The code for this one lives in a private repo. This page explains the idea so you can build your own.

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related

  • wdot: Rust headless browser for AI agents Command-line tool A fast tool that lets AI agents read websites cheaply, turning pages into clean text.
  • AI Workbench: local-first LLM interface Browser tool A chat workbench in one web page that talks to local or cloud AI models.
  • Artifact skill: self-describing HTML documents with embedded DSL AI skill Makes documents (roadmaps, logs, notes) as single web pages that carry their own editing instructions, so any person or AI can update them years later.
  • Clippings: AI/agents/engineering reading list (cluster) Note Articles James saved about AI agents, homelabs, HTML tools, and working life.
  • Free Game: code snippets made for pasting into AI prompts Prompt Short, self-contained code examples sorted by topic (JavaScript, Python, web, WebAssembly, command line), written to paste into an AI chat as context.
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