2.0.0

BrowserAI gives an AI agent a real browser on Windows. It is one program now, and it runs in the background from the moment you sign in. It holds every session, so a session outlives the client that drove it. A Start Menu click opens its dashboard in your own browser. BrowserAI registers itself with Codex as well as Claude Code.

Since 2026-09-30 Claude Code opens its connections a new way, and 1.1.0 gave those connections no BrowserAI tools. This version fixes that. It also removes the configuration window, where clicking a link planted in a project file could run something.

A project's .mcp.json that names BrowserAI.Server.exe has to be set up again from the dashboard. A copy installed outside %LocalAppData%\BrowserAI.app sets nothing up: uninstall it and run the installer again without --installto. For an agent, browserai_init and browserai_resume require four settings, browserai_catch_up requires a why, tracing is transcript, browserai_set_purpose is browserai_change_purpose, and an argument a tool does not have is refused.

Added

• ✨ A Start Menu click opens BrowserAI's dashboard, a page in your own browser. read more
• ✨ The dashboard's folder buttons open the folder in front of your browser. read more
• ✨ The dashboard's home shows the CPU and memory BrowserAI's own processes use, as they change. read more
• ✨ After an update, the dashboard's home says so until you have seen what is new. read more
• ✨ BrowserAI registers itself with Codex as well as Claude Code. read more
• ✨ A downloaded update that has to wait says so in a toast that counts down to its install. read more
• ✨ browserai_close closes a session's browser and keeps the session. read more
• ✨ Each session's browser closes after its own idle time, which idleMinutes sets. read more
• ✨ A session outlives the client that drove it, until its own idle close. read more
• ✨ Every close of a session's browser is recorded with its reason, and the agent is told it. read more
• ✨ A resumed session gets its tabs back. read more
• ✨ A resume that changes a session's settings is held back once, then reopens the browser with them. read more
• ✨ After an update, a client still holding the old tool list is told so once, with what to do. read more
• ✨ browserai_catch_up names every file in a session that can hold something sensitive. read more
• ✨ A broken install is shown to you in a toast and on every page of the dashboard. read more
• ✨ The dashboard and the toast name each conversation the way its client shows it. read more
• 📝 The README says what to do when an update leaves no BrowserAI. read more
• 📝 Why BrowserAI does not expose Playwright's own dashboard is written down. read more

Changed

• 💥 BrowserAI is one program, BrowserAI.exe, and a client starts it with --mcp. read more
• 💥 One BrowserAI runs in the background from sign-in, and each client hands its calls to it. read more
• 💥 BrowserAI works only when it is installed in %LocalAppData%\BrowserAI.app. read more
• 💥 browserai_init and browserai_resume require the four settings a person notices. read more
• 💥 browserai_catch_up requires a why, and a call without one is refused. read more
• 💥 tracing is transcript now, and a call that sends tracing is refused. read more
• 💥 An argument a tool does not have is refused, with the tool's whole definition. read more
• 💥 browserai_set_purpose is browserai_change_purpose now, with no alias. read more
• 🔧 A call to a tool BrowserAI does not have is told so, with a line for every tool it does have. read more
• 🔧 The server instructions keep only what spans tools, and six tools carry a BrowserAI note. read more
• 🔧 The tool descriptions, the answers and the log were rewritten. read more
• 🔧 Snapshots carry no bounding boxes unless the call asks for them. read more
• 🔧 browserai_list no longer measures every session it names, and says how old its sizes are. read more
• ⚡ The tool list no longer waits for Playwright to start, and none starts until a session opens. read more
• 🔒 A session's browser keeps its temporary files inside the session. read more
• 🔧 A hidden Chromium sends the user agent a visible one sends. read more
• 🔧 The browser no longer offers to save a password, because nobody can answer the offer. read more
• 🔧 Every clean close gives the browser up to a minute to write what it holds. read more
• 🔧 mcp-registration.json records one entry per client. read more
• ⬆️ @playwright/mcp moves to 0.0.83 with Chromium 155, and Velopack to 1.2.161. read more
• ⬆️ SQLite 3.54.0 is compiled into BrowserAI, up from 3.53.4. read more
• 📦 A release publishes three files: the installer, the full package and the update feed. read more

Removed

• 🗑️ The configuration window is gone, and with it a link a project file could use to run something. read more
• 🗑️ Eight more of Playwright's tools are no longer offered. read more

Fixed

• 🐛 Claude Code sessions have BrowserAI's tools again. read more
• 🐛 browserai_catch_up's last file written leaves out BrowserAI's own record files. read more
• 🐛 A Chromium screenshot past 16,384 px on a side is refused, where it came back repeated. read more
• 🐛 A Firefox started while Shift is held no longer stalls in safe mode. read more
• 🐛 A Chromium browser no longer crashes during a full-page screenshot of a long page. read more
• 🐛 A call whose Playwright ends under it is answered with what happened and how to go on. read more
• 🐛 A resume or a shutdown that meets a close in flight waits for it, and what the close saves is kept. read more
• 🐛 Playwright's own registry of browsers no longer grows without end. read more
• 🐛 The installer's log carries what each install, update and uninstall hook did. read more
• 🐛 A failed removal offers the command that removes BrowserAI, where it offered the one that adds it. read more
• 🐛 A browser download that finishes just as BrowserAI checks on it no longer crashes BrowserAI. read more
• 🐛 A refusal for a session another BrowserAI is opening names that session's purpose. read more

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Icon	Meaning	Icon	Meaning
✨	new capability	🐛	fix
🔧	behaviour or configuration change	🔒	security or permissions
🗑️	removal or deprecation	💥	breaking, or the reader must act
📝	documentation	✅	tests and the gate
📦	packaging, installer, release pipeline	⚡	performance
♻️	refactor with no behaviour change	⬆️	dependency move

The full changelog for this release: CHANGELOG.md