{"slug": "browser-search-three-tools-zero-cost-and-your-ai-agent-learns-to-search-and-the", "title": "browser-search — three tools, zero cost, and your AI agent learns to search and browse the web", "summary": "A developer built browser-search, a set of three open-source tools that enable AI agents to search and browse the web without API keys or subscriptions. The tools—SearXNG, Camofox, and CloakBrowser—work together to handle JavaScript-heavy sites and bypass bot protections like Cloudflare, with automatic escalation between browsers. The project is MIT-licensed and available on GitHub.", "body_md": "I've been using AI agents like OpenCode, Claude Code, and Cursor for months. They're great with code, but when they need to search or browse the web, things get complicated: Cloudflare blocks them, JavaScript-heavy sites don't load, APIs cost money.\n\nSo I built **browser-search**.\n\nIt's three open source tools orchestrated by a skill, fully self-hosted:\n\n**SearXNG **— metasearch engine that queries dozens of search engines at once\n\n**Camofox **— full browser via REST API, always warm, for browsing and interacting\n\n**CloakBrowser **— stealth browser for when the site has Cloudflare, Akamai, or DataDome\n\nThe agent decides which tool to use. Zero human intervention. Zero API keys. Zero subscriptions.\n\n**What makes it different**:\n\nIt's a skill, not a plugin — works with any agent that can read instructions\n\nAutomatic navigation escalation: if Camofox gets blocked, it switches to CloakBrowser\n\nDeep Research mode: the agent is instructed to go beyond surface-level answers, cross-verify sources, cover every aspect\n\nIntegrated Readability.js for clean article extraction (**~70% token savings**)\n\nThe SKILL.md is plain text — fork it, tweak it, make it yours\n\n**Built-in security**. Browser-search is designed to be safe to install and use, including SSRF protection, script sandboxing, rate limiting, and path traversal blocks.\n\nMIT licensed on GitHub: [https://github.com/Johell1NS/browser-search](https://github.com/Johell1NS/browser-search)\n\nIf you try it, let me know. If you make it better, even more so. If you don't need it, share it with someone who might. Every star, comment, or pull request is welcome — that's what makes open source great.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/browser-search-three-tools-zero-cost-and-your-ai-agent-learns-to-search-and-the", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/johell_53f6d09d8a4c3ce7b8/browser-search-three-tools-zero-cost-and-your-ai-agent-learns-to-search-and-browse-the-web-4im", "published_at": "2026-06-30 16:04:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-30 16:18:38.651286+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["SearXNG", "Camofox", "CloakBrowser", "Cloudflare", "Akamai", "DataDome", "GitHub", "Readability.js"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/browser-search-three-tools-zero-cost-and-your-ai-agent-learns-to-search-and-the", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/browser-search-three-tools-zero-cost-and-your-ai-agent-learns-to-search-and-the.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/browser-search-three-tools-zero-cost-and-your-ai-agent-learns-to-search-and-the.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/browser-search-three-tools-zero-cost-and-your-ai-agent-learns-to-search-and-the.jsonld"}}