ego-lite
A conditional browser route for long-lived, simultaneous agent and human work inside isolated authenticated task spaces. Browser Testing Skills remains the default; ego-lite is relevant only when task-space ownership and handoff are the actual job. Source:
citrolabs/ego-litecommitc46a439e7fbad90ad33dbea6c6af329b6009809f, 2026-08-12
Distinct capability
The open-source Node/CDP harness operates a separate Ego browser application. Its useful design is not another click API: authenticated browser state is partitioned into task spaces, each space has an explicit agent, user, or delegated owner, and control can be handed off without forcing the person and agent to fight over one active tab. The skill favors one code-first Node session over a long sequence of CLI calls and can retain site-specific learnings under its workspace. Source: pinned README and skills/ego-browser/SKILL.md
Use it only when all of these are true:
- the work must stay logged in for a long period;
- a person and one or more agents need to operate in parallel;
- ownership/handoff is valuable enough to justify a dedicated browser profile;
- the account, profile, network, and mutation authority are explicitly bounded.
For ordinary navigation, scraping, screenshots, QA, or a single logged-in flow, use Browser Testing Skills.
Trust boundary
The harness is MIT, but the browser application it drives is a separate closed-source free download. The installer can import Chrome logins, cookies, extensions, and bookmarks, installs a skill across agent environments, and removes macOS quarantine. Those are privileged actions, not convenience defaults. Use a dedicated profile and preferably a dedicated account; import only the minimum state; review the exact installer and binary revision; keep CDP local; record space ownership and closeout; and never treat “no telemetry” or “local data” as independently proven simply because the repository says so. Source: pinned install reference and README
At capture, the repository had 9,621 stars, 479 forks, 150 blobs, two selected tests, five workflows, and one skill. That proves a maintained integration surface, not the security of the closed browser binary. Kevin has retained the route without installing it globally. Source: frozen repository evidence, 2026-08-12
Timeline
- 2026-08-12 | Deep-reviewed the harness, skill, installer, ownership model, tests, release workflows, and local browser overlap. Added ego-lite below agent-browser as a guarded authenticated task-space route. Source: X bookmark
2084114545690423407; pinned repository evidence