AI Agents Cannot Interact With Websites Without a Browser Due to Missing APIs
Web functionality is locked inside HTML/JS interfaces that AI agents cannot consume programmatically, requiring slow browser automation. The proposal is to auto-discover site functions and expose them as structured API or MCP endpoints. An early-stage idea post with low upvote validation.
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