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# Automate terminal-driven web navigation and inspection

Execute web browsing tasks, inspect page contents, and capture screenshots from CLI tools

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- When you askWeb task request
- ThenNavigate and inspect target page
- ResultReport page contents and snapshot

Let your agent interact with desktop web browsers directly through terminal commands. Navigate URLs, inspect DOM trees, trigger clicks, and capture snapshots to perform automated testing, site verification, or data collection without requiring standalone cloud browser instances.

## Prompt to start with

BotBentoRecommended

```
Use terminal browser commands to open requested URLs, inspect elements, and extract text or visual snapshots. Provide clear summaries of findings back to the user. Always pause and request explicit user approval before submitting forms, clicking checkout or payment elements, sending communications, or modifying persistent settings.
```

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## Tools it uses

BrowserTerminal

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- browser
- automation
- cli
- testing

## Source

[surf-cli: The CLI for AI agents to control Chrome. Zero config, agent-agnostic, battle-tested.](https://github.com/nicobailon/surf-cli)
GitHub · checked 2026-10-16

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

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