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A text-mode web browser that converts websites into BBS-style menus for AI agents.

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WebCLI 🖥️

WebCLI is a text-mode web browser designed for AI agents.

It converts modern websites into BBS-style, numbered text menus, so LLMs can navigate the web using the same format they already reason in: text.

No screenshots.
No raw HTML dumps.
No brittle selectors.

Why This Exists

Working with browsers + LLMs today is painful.

Most agent setups:

Both approaches are:

I built WebCLI after repeatedly hitting these problems while experimenting with browser-based agents.

This project explores a different idea: what if the browser spoke the same language as the agent?

What It Does

Turns this:

Into this:

This keeps interaction deterministic, readable, and cheap.

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Usage

MCP Server (Claude Desktop / Claude Code)

Add to your config:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Restart Claude. Then:

"Go to news.ycombinator.com and tell me the top stories"

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MIT © Andy Cufari / CM64.studio

Built in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷

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