alt Hacker News> Index is the SOTA open-source browser agent for autonomously executing complex tasks on the web.
I've written a handful of pretty hacky Python scripts that just pull down all of the HTML content from a page and toss it over to OpenAI. As you can imagine, these were all extremely simple tasks, e.g., "find out if there's a login button"
What's a good example of a complex task that Index is well-suited for? What's the threshold of minimal complexity where you guys are a really good fit?
- research task, agent is smart enough to understand which links to click next without the need to hardcode the parsing and navigation logic
- any task that requires UI interaction, button clicking, filter selection, form filling and so on. Just prompt it, it's surprisingly very robust and self-healing.
- complex long-running task that require extensive context - e.g. researching one topic and then creating spreadsheet, creating a presentation for a topic and so on.
Essentially, any task that can be done within a browser environment that previously required flacky hardcoded predefined scripts. Also, website testing is a great example.