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Lightpanda Browser The headless browser built from scratch for AI agents and automation. Not a Chromium fork. Not a WebKit patch. A new browser, written in Zig. 16x lighter and 9x faster than Chromium.   Benchmarks Requesting 933 real web pages over the network on a AWS EC2 m5.large instance. See benchmark details. H
| Stars | 36,239 |
| Forks | 1,723 |
| Language | Zig |
| Category | AI Tool |
| License | AGPL-3.0 |
| Quality Score | 69.3665702107869/100 |
| Open Issues | 95 |
| Last Updated | 2026-10-11 |
| Created | 2023-02-07 |
| Platforms | browser |
| Est. Tokens | ~20k |
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browser is Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation. It is categorized as a AI Tool with 36.2k GitHub stars.
browser is primarily written in Zig. It covers topics such as browser, browser-automation, cdp.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the browser GitHub repository at github.com/lightpanda-io/browser. The project has 36.2k stars and 1723 forks, indicating an active community.
browser is released under the AGPL-3.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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