Publishes Steel Browser infrastructure and official cloud-browser Skills for live browsing, reusable code, and session diagnosis.
Steel maintains the open-source steel-browser project and related browser-service tooling. The infrastructure supplies browser sessions; agent reasoning and application logic remain with the connected client or code.
Steel supplies browser infrastructure for agents and automation code. A workflow creates a browser session, connects its chosen client, performs page work, and releases the session. The open-source browser server and hosted service are distinct operating choices; cloud-oriented Skills do not automatically describe a self-hosted deployment.
Official Skills are maintained in steel-dev/skills and target specific cloud-browser jobs. The hosted MCP service and the open-source browser runtime have different setup paths, which should be checked before equating the repository with a cloud account.
Begin with the browser backend: a server you operate or a hosted session. Then follow the matching client and session-cleanup instructions.
Compare Browserbase for SDK automation and hosted sessions, Skyvern for reusable business workflows, Lightpanda for a lightweight browser engine, Bright Data for managed web data services. Choose by the browser environment and task result you need.
A short extraction checks the full session lifecycle, including cleanup. A useful result records whether the session was released as well as what the page contained.
