Agent Browser vs Browser Harness
Both are Grade A and 2.6 points apart, so choose on what you weigh most. Agent Browser leads on supply-chain integrity and adoption; Browser Harness leads on transparency and maintenance.
Browser automation CLI for AI agents
Choose Agent Browser if supply-chain integrity and adoption matter most.
- +1.7Safety / Integrity: 100% of recent commits signed, against 31%
- +1.0Adoption: 1.7M weekly downloads against 1.5M
Browser Harness | Self-healing harness that enables LLMs to complete any task.
Choose Browser Harness if transparency and maintenance matter most.
- +1.9Maintenance
- +1.2Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 5.9 against 4.5
Where they differ
1 dimension identical: Identity 18.0 · Full evidence table
An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Agent Browser and Browser Harness, two Browser & Computer Use projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.
Full evidence
| Signal | Agent Browservercel-labs/agent-browser | Browser Harnessbrowser-use/browser-harness |
|---|---|---|
| HVTrust score | 87.6 | 90.2 |
| Evidence grade | A | A |
| Coverage grade | B | B |
| Overall rank | #53 | #22 |
| Rank in Browser & Computer Use | #7 | #3 |
| GitHub stars | 43.9k | 18.4k |
| Last updated | today | today |
| Build provenance | Yes | Yes |
| OSSF Scorecard | 4.5 / 10 | 5.9 / 10 |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Downloads | 1.7M/wk | 1.5M/wk |
| Trust dimensions (points earned) | ||
| Safety / integrity / 25 | 18.1 | 16.4 |
| Identity & provenance / 18 | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Transparency / 17 | 12.3 | 13.5 |
| Maintenance / 20 | 18.1 | 20.0 |
| Adoption / 20 | 19.5 | 18.5 |
| Runtime capability surface (full matrix) | ||
| MCP server | Implemented | Implemented |
| External providers | 3 — Amazon Bedrock, Browserbase, Redis | 1 — Anthropic |
| Requires API keys | Yes | No |
| Plugin surface | plugins | plugins |
| Provenance drift | Match | Match |
How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.4 →