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Direct Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) connection to a managed Chrome profile that preserves user authentication state (cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage, tokens). Unlike headless automation tools, bb-browser operates on a real browser instance with the user's actual login credentials, enabling interaction with authenticated web applications without credential re-entry or session simulation. The daemon layer (bb-browserd) maintains persistent CDP connections and translates CLI/MCP commands into low-level CDP protocol messages.
Unique: Uses direct CDP connection to a managed Chrome profile (v0.11.x architecture) instead of headless/isolated browser instances, preserving real authentication state and cookies. Site Adapter System bridges websites into CLI tools by executing JavaScript within the authenticated browser context, eliminating the need for websites to provide machine-readable APIs.
vs alternatives: Preserves user authentication state across runs unlike Playwright/Selenium headless instances; enables interaction with authenticated web apps without credential management unlike traditional web scraping libraries
A plugin architecture where JavaScript adapters (loaded from ~/.bb-browser/sites/ for local/private adapters and ~/.bb-browser/bb-sites/ for community adapters) define domain-specific commands that run within the browser's authenticated context. Each adapter includes @meta JSON metadata declaring the target domain, available commands, and argument schemas. The system uses domain-based discovery to suggest relevant adapters when users navigate to specific websites, and executes adapter code via eval() within the page context to access internal APIs, DOM, or localStorage without external API calls.
Unique: Two-tier adapter loading system (local ~/.bb-browser/sites/ + synced community ~/.bb-browser/bb-sites/) with domain-based discovery and metadata-driven argument validation. Adapters execute JavaScript within the authenticated browser context (Tier 3 injection), giving direct access to page internals, localStorage, and internal JS variables without external API calls.
vs alternatives: Converts websites into APIs without requiring site cooperation or reverse-engineering, unlike web scraping libraries; community-driven ecosystem enables rapid adapter creation vs maintaining separate integrations for each platform
Analyzes the current page's domain and suggests relevant site adapters using the getSiteHintForDomain function. When a user navigates to a website, bb-browser can recommend available adapters for that domain, helping users discover automation capabilities without manual search. The system maintains a mapping of domains to available adapters, enabling quick lookup and suggestion.
Unique: Domain-based discovery system that suggests relevant adapters when users navigate to a website. Integrates with adapter metadata to provide contextual recommendations without explicit search.
vs alternatives: Proactive discovery vs requiring users to manually search for adapters; domain-based matching enables quick lookup vs full-text search
Manages two adapter directories: local (~/.bb-browser/sites/ for private/custom adapters) and community (~/.bb-browser/bb-sites/ synced from public GitHub repository). The system loads adapters from both locations, with local adapters taking precedence. Community adapters are automatically synced from a GitHub repository, enabling users to benefit from community-maintained adapters without manual installation. Adapter discovery and execution use this unified registry.
Unique: Dual-tier adapter registry (local + community) with automatic GitHub syncing for community adapters. Local adapters take precedence, enabling private customization while benefiting from community contributions.
vs alternatives: Community-driven ecosystem enables rapid adapter creation vs maintaining separate integrations; local override enables customization vs read-only community registry
Provides monitoring and debugging commands (monitor, logs, debug) that expose browser events, console logs, network activity, and performance metrics via CDP protocol. These tools help developers understand what's happening in the browser during automation, diagnose failures, and optimize performance. Monitoring can be streamed in real-time or retrieved after execution.
Unique: Integrates CDP event monitoring into the automation workflow, exposing console logs, network activity, and performance metrics for debugging. Enables real-time monitoring of automation execution.
vs alternatives: Direct CDP access provides detailed debugging info vs Playwright/Selenium which abstract away low-level events; real-time monitoring enables interactive debugging
Wraps bb-browser's CLI capabilities in a Model Context Protocol (MCP) stdio server, translating MCP tool invocations into daemon commands. The MCP layer (packages/mcp/src/index.ts) acts as a protocol adapter that converts AI agent tool calls into bb-browser CLI commands, executes them against the bb-browserd daemon, and returns structured results back to the agent. This enables AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor) to control the browser as a native tool without CLI invocation overhead.
Unique: Implements MCP as a stdio protocol translation layer that bridges AI agents to the bb-browserd daemon, converting high-level tool invocations into low-level CDP commands. Enables AI agents to discover and invoke browser actions as native tools without subprocess overhead.
vs alternatives: Tighter integration with AI agents than CLI-based invocation; standardized MCP protocol enables compatibility with multiple AI platforms vs custom integrations for each tool
Provides CLI commands (click, type, hover, focus, scroll) that target DOM elements using CSS selectors or XPath expressions. Commands are translated to CDP protocol messages that interact with the page's DOM in real-time. The system supports multi-element operations (e.g., clicking all elements matching a selector) and includes built-in waits for element visibility/stability before interaction, reducing flakiness in dynamic web applications.
Unique: Uses CDP protocol for direct DOM interaction with built-in element visibility waits and multi-element batch operations. Integrates with the authenticated browser context to interact with pages as the logged-in user.
vs alternatives: More reliable than Playwright/Selenium for authenticated pages because it uses the real browser session; built-in waits reduce flakiness vs raw CDP usage
Provides data extraction capabilities via two mechanisms: (1) DOM-based extraction using CSS selectors to query elements and return text/attributes/HTML, and (2) JavaScript eval-based extraction that executes arbitrary code within the page context to access internal state, localStorage, sessionStorage, or page-specific APIs. Results are returned as structured JSON, enabling AI agents and scripts to parse and process extracted data programmatically.
Unique: Dual extraction mechanism: CSS selector-based DOM queries for structured data + JavaScript eval for accessing internal page state and localStorage. Executes within authenticated browser context, enabling access to user-specific data without API credentials.
vs alternatives: Accesses internal page state and localStorage unlike traditional web scraping; no need for reverse-engineered API calls or credential management
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Converts variable-length text sequences into fixed-dimensional dense vector representations (768-dim) using a transformer-based architecture (MPNet) trained on 215M+ sentence pairs. The model uses mean pooling over token embeddings to produce sentence-level vectors that capture semantic meaning, enabling downstream similarity and retrieval tasks without task-specific fine-tuning.
Unique: Uses MPNet (Masked and Permuted Language Modeling) architecture with mean pooling trained on 215M+ diverse sentence pairs (S2ORC, MS MARCO, StackExchange, Yahoo Answers, CodeSearchNet) rather than single-task fine-tuning, achieving state-of-the-art performance on 14+ downstream tasks without task-specific adaptation
vs alternatives: Outperforms OpenAI's text-embedding-3-small on semantic similarity benchmarks (MTEB score 63.3 vs 62.3) while being fully open-source, locally deployable, and requiring no API calls or authentication
Enables semantic similarity computation between text pairs by projecting both inputs into a shared 768-dimensional vector space where cosine distance correlates with semantic relatedness. The model was trained with contrastive learning objectives on parallel and similar-meaning sentence pairs, allowing it to match semantically equivalent texts across different phrasings and domains.
Unique: Trained with in-batch negatives and hard negative mining on 215M+ pairs including adversarial examples (MS MARCO hard negatives, StackExchange duplicate detection), producing embeddings optimized for ranking-aware similarity rather than generic semantic distance
vs alternatives: Achieves higher ranking accuracy than Sentence-BERT-base (NDCG@10: 0.68 vs 0.61) on MS MARCO while maintaining 2.5x faster inference than cross-encoder rerankers due to symmetric embedding computation
all-mpnet-base-v2 scores higher at 55/100 vs bb-browser at 33/100.
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Provides pre-converted model artifacts in multiple inference-optimized formats (PyTorch, ONNX, OpenVINO, SafeTensors) enabling deployment across heterogeneous hardware and runtime environments. The model supports quantization-friendly architectures and is compatible with text-embeddings-inference servers, allowing containerized, high-throughput inference without framework dependencies.
Unique: Provides pre-optimized artifacts for 4+ inference runtimes (PyTorch, ONNX, OpenVINO, SafeTensors) with native support for text-embeddings-inference server, eliminating manual conversion overhead and enabling single-command containerized deployment
vs alternatives: Reduces deployment complexity vs. Sentence-BERT by offering pre-converted ONNX and OpenVINO artifacts; eliminates 2-3 day conversion and optimization cycle typical for custom model exports
Processes variable-length text batches through transformer layers with configurable pooling strategies (mean pooling, max pooling, CLS token) to produce fixed-size embeddings. The implementation uses efficient batching with dynamic padding, allowing GPU memory optimization and throughput scaling from single sentences to thousands of documents per batch.
Unique: Implements dynamic padding with configurable pooling strategies (mean, max, CLS) optimized for sentence-level embeddings; mean pooling strategy was specifically tuned on 215M+ sentence pairs to balance token importance without task-specific weighting
vs alternatives: Achieves 3-5x higher throughput than cross-encoder models on batch embedding tasks due to symmetric architecture; outperforms naive pooling approaches by 2-3% on similarity tasks through contrastive training on diverse pooling objectives
Provides a pre-trained transformer backbone (MPNet-base) with frozen or unfrozen layers enabling efficient fine-tuning on domain-specific sentence similarity tasks. The model architecture supports standard transfer learning patterns: feature extraction (frozen embeddings), layer-wise fine-tuning, and full model adaptation with minimal computational overhead compared to training from scratch.
Unique: Supports multiple fine-tuning objectives (contrastive, triplet, siamese) with built-in loss functions optimized for sentence-level tasks; architecture enables efficient layer-wise unfreezing and gradient checkpointing to reduce memory footprint during adaptation
vs alternatives: Requires 10-100x fewer labeled examples than training embeddings from scratch (100 pairs vs 100K+) while achieving 85-95% of full-model performance; outperforms simple feature extraction baselines by 5-15% on domain-specific similarity tasks
Enables building searchable indexes of pre-computed embeddings using approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) algorithms (FAISS, Annoy, HNSW) for fast semantic retrieval. The model produces embeddings optimized for ranking-aware similarity, allowing efficient top-k retrieval from million-scale document collections with sub-100ms latency.
Unique: Embeddings are trained with ranking-aware contrastive objectives (hard negative mining from MS MARCO) producing vectors optimized for ANN-based retrieval; achieves higher NDCG@10 scores than embeddings trained with symmetric similarity objectives
vs alternatives: Enables 10-100x faster retrieval than cross-encoder reranking (sub-100ms vs 1-10s per query) while maintaining competitive ranking quality; outperforms BM25 keyword search on semantic relevance while supporting zero-shot domain transfer
Generalizes across diverse text domains (scientific papers, web search results, Q&A forums, code repositories, product reviews) and multiple languages through training on 215M+ heterogeneous sentence pairs. The model learns domain-agnostic semantic representations that transfer to unseen domains without fine-tuning, though with degraded performance on highly specialized vocabularies.
Unique: Trained on 215M+ pairs spanning 8+ diverse domains (S2ORC scientific papers, MS MARCO web search, StackExchange Q&A, CodeSearchNet code, Yahoo Answers, GooAQ, ELI5) enabling single-model generalization across heterogeneous text types without task-specific adaptation
vs alternatives: Outperforms domain-specific embeddings on zero-shot transfer tasks (MTEB average: 63.3 vs 58-62 for single-domain models) while maintaining competitive in-domain performance; eliminates need for separate models per domain
Supports inference on CPU and resource-constrained devices through optimized ONNX and OpenVINO implementations, quantization-friendly architecture, and minimal model size (438MB). The model achieves reasonable latency (50-200ms per sentence on modern CPUs) without GPU acceleration, enabling deployment on edge devices, serverless functions, and cost-optimized cloud instances.
Unique: Provides pre-optimized ONNX and OpenVINO artifacts with quantization-friendly architecture (no custom ops, standard transformer layers) enabling efficient CPU inference; 438MB model size is 2-3x smaller than full-size BERT variants while maintaining competitive accuracy
vs alternatives: Achieves 5-10x lower inference cost than GPU-based embeddings on serverless platforms (AWS Lambda: $0.0000002/invocation vs $0.0001+ for GPU) while maintaining 85-95% of GPU inference quality through ONNX optimization