--- title: "Browsing agent: definition | Agent Ready Crawlers" description: "Browsing agent: Software that drives a browser to complete a task for a person, clicking, typing and checking out. Read 2026-11-04." canonical: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/glossary/browsing-agent site: "Agent Ready Crawlers" last_updated: 2026-11-04 section: "Glossary" --- # Browsing agent: definition | Agent Ready Crawlers > Browsing agent: Software that drives a browser to complete a task for a person, clicking, typing and checking out. Read 2026-11-04. Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/glossary/browsing-agent Site: Agent Ready Crawlers Last reviewed: 2026-11-04 Glossary # Browsing agent In short Software that drives a browser to complete a task for a person: clicking, typing and checking out. It may run in the operator's cloud or in the user's own browser. 20 Index rows are task agents, and 19 of them have no robots.txt token. Example: ChatGPT's Cloud browser runs in OpenAI's cloud and signs its requests. ## Definition Software that drives a browser to complete a task for a person: clicking, typing and checking out. It may run in the operator's cloud or in the user's own browser. ## Sourced example ChatGPT's Cloud browser runs in OpenAI's cloud and signs its requests; Claude in Chrome runs in the user's Chrome. [Source](https://www.centinelanalytica.com/blog/ai-browser-agents), read 2026-11-04. ## How it shows up here 20 Index rows are task agents, and 19 of them have no robots.txt token. - [All task agents](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/purpose/task-agent/) - [Crawler versus browsing agent](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/guides/crawler-versus-browsing-agent/) Previous: [BotBase](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/glossary/botbase/). Next: [Content-Signal](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/glossary/content-signal/). [All 41 terms](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/glossary/). ## Sources - [centinelanalytica.com: ai browser agents](https://www.centinelanalytica.com/blog/ai-browser-agents) read 2026-11-04 Last reviewed 2026-11-04