browser-use/jev-ultrafast: first run, 2026-10-11

Installed from its README in a throwaway sandbox by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5), with a Jev API key in the environment and nothing else: no GPU, no desktop, no other paid keys, no accounts. The README's first example was run once. Repo commit 1231850a0bf1; 86 seconds. All results · Task

Quick start: did not run. Jev calls made: 1.

Install	`curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh \| sh && cd ~/src && uv sync && cp .env.example .env (TYPESAFE_API_KEY filled in from env)`
Quick start, as run	BU_CDP_URL=http://127.0.0.1:9222 uv run --env-file .env python examples/run.py --url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page --goal 'Find and open the Wikipedia article about Gödel’s incompleteness theorems.' (README's primary 'Try it' is `uv run jev` + web inspector Google Flights demo; chose the smaller CLI example that calls Jev)
What came back	Jev call succeeded and chose TYPE_TEXT (search box) as its first action; the agent then crashed: ValueError: TYPE_TEXT needs TEXT_MODEL_API_KEY; no text is hardcoded or guessed by the executor. (jev_ultrafast/model.py:163)
What stopped it	A second paid key: TEXT_MODEL_API_KEY (an OpenRouter key in the example config, for model inception/mercury-2.5). Every README example needs it as soon as Jev picks TYPE_TEXT, including the Wikipedia one, which types into the search box on its first step. The README does list it as required in 'Try it'. Also needs Chrome with remote debugging; the README's flow assumes a desktop browser, though headless Chromium + BU_CDP_URL got past that.

Steps the README does not mention

Installed uv (not present on machine; README assumes it)
Started Chromium manually: headless, with --remote-debugging-port=9222 and a temp profile (README assumes a desktop Chrome where you can click 'allow remote debugging')
Set BU_CDP_URL=http://127.0.0.1:9222 so browser-harness could find the browser; without it the daemon failed with 'chrome-not-running' even though Chrome was listening on 9222

The session's closing message

It installs, and it reached Jev, but the first run failed. Jev picked an action, then the agent crashed because it needs a second paid key this machine doesn't have.

- **Install:** `uv sync` worked once I had installed `uv`. The README assumes `uv` is already on the machine.
- **Quick start:** The README's main demo is `uv run jev` plus a web page you click through, running a Google Flights search. I ran its smaller command-line example instead: `examples/run.py`, which tries to open the Wikipedia article on Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
- **What happened:** Jev answered once and chose to type into the Wikipedia search box. Typing hands off to a separate text model, and that needs `TEXT_MODEL_API_KEY`. In the example setup that is an OpenRouter key. With it missing, the run stopped with `ValueError: TYPE_TEXT needs TEXT_MODEL_API_KEY` (`jev_ultrafast/model.py:163`). The README does list this key as required. The Flights demo would hit the same wall, since it has to type city names. That was 1 Jev call in total.
- **Steps the README doesn't mention:**
- Installing `uv`.
- Starting Chromium myself, without a window, with remote debugging on port 9222. The README assumes a desktop Chrome where you click "allow remote debugging".
- Setting `BU_CDP_URL=http://127.0.0.1:9222`. Without it, the browser connection layer (browser-harness) reported "chrome-not-running" even though Chromium was running and listening.

The README's setup has you put the API key in `.env`, and the run reads it from there. Since you said not to write the key anywhere, I deleted `.env` afterwards. I didn't change any project code. I also shut down the Chromium I started.

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