Hacker News: keepamovin

Tell HN: Forget selectors and screenshots. The agentic web lives in your shell

keepamovin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:59:10 +0000

These old ways are too heavy. Full self browsing doesn’t require Elon Musk vision processing.

It just requires Agentish - the agent’s native tongue, the LLM’s lingua franca - frickin plain text.

And honesty. About what it can do (everything on the web, besides stuff only you can do), and what it can’t do, but you can: MFA, captcha, login.

An agent skill with smart guardrails and a well designed Unix philosophy CLI tool is enough to power any task on the web.

You can try it too. Here’s some things I’ve thrown at it and it’s done:

- find at least 100 relevant tweets and craft apt replies that promote WebCLI to people experiencing the pain it solves Grok Build with Composer 2.5 Fast

- Compare flights from SFO to DC mid afternoon across a couple of providers like Google flights and kayak, etc.. Find the cheapest one with no stops. Fill in my details and book it but stop at payment. Codex 5.5 high

- Find some fun Lego products across amazon Walmart Alibaba and lego.com and find the coolest set or large quantity of blocks at the best price and take it all the way to checkout filling in details. Claude Sonnet 4.6

And many more. The agent’s always figure it out. No screenshots no selectors, just raw text and numbered references for actions with honest in validation and a bunch of useful surface.

The core loop is a simple OODA loop:

  web inspect # agent observes and orients 
  web do   # agent decides and acts

Repeat. Forever. That gets everything done. The tool is small enough, and transparent enough, and agents are smart enough, and persistent enough that they always figure it out.

It’s a new era of web task driving with intelligence. No more playwrights and puppets, no more robotic “auto-mation” beep boop. WebCLI is web improvisation, powered by agents’ intelligence.

I want to keep building technology for agency. Imagine if you tried this tool and it saved you time and drudgery. Try it and then pay because it’s valuable. You get a free, fully functional five day trial per email domain, with just email. Https://webcli.sh

Contact me if you have ideas to use it at scale

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540019

Points: 2

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New comment by keepamovin in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

keepamovin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:04:42 +0000

WebCLI - screenshots are a dead end. MCP is too verbose and clunky. Agents native language is text. Web CLI is just a Unix-y CLI that pipes/translates the web to text. Run any task on a web browser, but don't do it yourself (only the parts you have to - MFA, Login, CAPTCHA, whatever). An agent + WebCLI does anything you throw at it.

  web go news.ycombinator.com
  cat reply.txt | web say -
  web find add comment
  web do 44

just. like. that. Super simple. CLI or REPL. You can do it by hand but you probably don't want to, just give it to an agent. Run web teach to imprint the SKILL.md files into the current directory tree and an agent can hit the ground running. It's the end of browser automation for everything but super scripted fixed path CI/testing etc (those latter things where pptr/playwright/et al are still ok). WebCLI is browser improvization. Try it - 5 days free. I sprinted on this the last few weeks. It's really good. So useful. https://webcli.sh/

Show HN: Browse the web, from the console, using a Textual Agent Interface

keepamovin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:05:55 +0000

Article URL: https://webcli.sh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514294

Points: 3

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JRE 2513 – Dean Radin

keepamovin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:03:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uk0_1yqdJo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514279

Points: 2

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Show HN: WebCLI – make the web browser just another agent skill

keepamovin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:30:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/DO-SAY-GO/web-cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512071

Points: 4

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Show HN: Full-self browsing - agents can drive any web task using this CLI Skill

keepamovin — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:52:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.webcli.sh/?hn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510764

Points: 2

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Show HN: Token efficient command line tool for textual operation of browsers

keepamovin — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:03:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/DO-SAY-Go/web-cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500785

Points: 1

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Show HN: WebCLI – drive browser tasks from the command line using agents

keepamovin — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:56:22 +0000

Article URL: https://webcli.sh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498508

Points: 2

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New comment by keepamovin in "Show HN: A text based browser, written in Rust, for humans and agents"

keepamovin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:53:46 +0000

I made this because it seemed obvious.

Show HN: A text based browser, written in Rust, for humans and agents

keepamovin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:51:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/DO-SAY-GO/web-cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487115

Points: 2

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New comment by keepamovin in "Claude Fable 5"

keepamovin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:03:06 +0000

I tried it today. Used it to cheer me up. It worked! Try this on desktop: https://fireshow.pages.dev

Here’s the whole process: https://youtu.be/rVEtFlb2oFA?t=1112&si=3VyAR07vkY1hav9V

WebCLI – Agent Interface Device for the World Wide Web

keepamovin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:59:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.webcli.sh/?thevar

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475648

Points: 2

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I was feeling low, and Claude Fable cheered me up with this triptych build [video]

keepamovin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:16:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVEtFlb2oFA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475159

Points: 1

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New comment by keepamovin in "Claude Fable cheered me up by building this tryptich"

keepamovin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:01:51 +0000

You can see the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVEtFlb2oFA&feature=youtu.be (only 65% up, many Gigs)

I was literally feeling quite low. And just threw this random prompt at Fable to try it out, and hopefully cheer myself up.

It did amazing work over an hour, and many notes, and just within a 5 hour limit. Super mood elevated, plus really fun to see this.

Now I share it with you.

Claude Fable cheered me up by building this tryptich

keepamovin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:58:53 +0000

Article URL: https://fireshow.pages.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474992

Points: 1

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Claude Sonnet 4.6 Making VMs in GCP, Azure and AWS via a Textual Agent Interface

keepamovin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:44:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ox9vuJSdjg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473853

Points: 2

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Show HN: WebCLI – what if the browser was just another Unix command?

keepamovin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:27:01 +0000

Article URL: https://webcli.sh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473198

Points: 4

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Task Force on the Declassification of 'Federal Secrets'

keepamovin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:33:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4couUZtAkew

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469684

Points: 2

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New comment by keepamovin in "Ask HN: Why do AIs talk like this?"

keepamovin — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:11:33 +0000

I appreciate your honesty! When I read those kind of things back in the days before AI, I always believed the similarity in tone meant they must have all been using some early proto-AI type system to draft their copy - either that or they were all dutifully following some kind of "writing guide" - surely sold by another course!

I don't specifically recall the "not X, it's Y". But I do recall that kind of "preacher's rhetorical" tone.

Kind of funny in a absurd Terry Pratchett/Douglas Adams/Jean-Pierre Jeunet "fully realized quriky world" kind of way. It turned out that the thing which ended up being most responsible for giving birth to Artificial Intelligence on Earth, was none other than the vast collected writings of online coaching course content creators in the early 21st century...

Ask HN: Why do AIs talk like this?

keepamovin — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:01:09 +0000

It's not X, it's Y.

That is so a genre or idiom of the current AI age. Why? I think because AIs live in language. They don't live somewhere else. So they have to exclude all the language network of things it's not in order to focus themselves on the thing it is. If they were more subconscious/symbolic like us, they could just not say that. But because their words, create their words, etc - more than us - they have to use this construction, to exclude the gigantic amount of stuff that whatever you're talking about is not.

What do y'all think?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433363

Points: 3

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