Lightpanda is a headless browser built for AI agents and automation that loads and runs web pages without ever drawing them, so crawling, scraping, and agent browsing finish far faster and lighter than in Chrome. You drive it with the tooling you already have: Puppeteer, Playwright, and Chromedp connect over the Chrome DevTools Protocol, Selenium works over WebDriver BiDi, and existing Chrome automation scripts keep running against the new endpoint. Scripts can execute JavaScript on real pages, wait for network activity, read and mutate the DOM, submit forms, and pull structured data out of dynamic sites that plain HTTP clients cannot see. An MCP server mode hands the browser to AI applications as a callable tool, so a model can open pages, follow links, and read content in the middle of an agent workflow. The built-in agent accepts plain-language browsing tasks and can export what it did as PandaScript, a replayable JavaScript file that runs later with no model call at runtime. A fetch command loads one or more URLs and prints the result as HTML or Markdown, which turns page extraction into a single shell step inside data pipelines. In the project's published crawl benchmark it processed pages roughly nine times faster than headless Chrome at a fraction of the memory, so one server can hold many more concurrent browsing sessions. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Scoring 64.4 on the WebBench benchmark — state-of-the-art among browser automation platforms — Skyvern replaces brittle XPath-based scripts with Vision LLM reasoning that adapts when websites change their layouts. The platform extends Playwright with AI-powered page methods including page.act(), page.extract(), and page.validate() that accept natural language prompts while still supporting traditional CSS selectors as fallback. The drag-and-drop Workflow Studio offers 17+ block types including navigation, extraction, login, loops, conditionals, code blocks, file download, and file upload — enabling non-technical users to build complex multi-step automations without writing code. Self-hosted deployments support bring-your-own-LLM with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Ollama, while the multi-engine architecture allows swapping between Skyvern 2.0, OpenAI CUA, Anthropic CUA, or UI-TARS per task with a single parameter. Built-in infrastructure handles persistent browser sessions preserving cookies and localStorage across runs, automatic CAPTCHA solving for reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha, anti-bot bypass for Cloudflare and DataDome, residential proxy rotation across 20+ countries, and a credential vault integrating with Bitwarden and 1Password for secure 2FA management. Real-time session livestreaming via WebRTC enables visual debugging, while step-by-step action logs with screenshots and full LLM diagnostic traces provide production observability. The MCP server integration exposes Skyvern as a tool for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible AI agent. Connect to 6,000+ apps through Zapier, Make.com, or self-hosted N8N workflows. Deploy via Docker Compose or pip install with a two-command setup. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.