Kernel: Browser infrastructure for web agents and automations

Browser agents are quickly becoming one of the most exciting frontiers in software, and they’re starting to completely transform how we interact with the web. Instead of manually clicking through dashboards, copy-pasting data, or juggling dozens of tabs, we can now delegate these tasks to agents that run in the browser and work on our behalf.

This shift is part of a larger trend: the rise of browser agents. In 2025, AI is no longer just a chatbot — it’s a collaborator. Browser agents represent one of the most practical ways to harness that power right now. They are easy to build, easy to distribute, and can add value instantly without requiring users to install complex infrastructure.

Whether you’re a developer looking for your next side project, a startup founder searching for product ideas, or just curious about the future of computing, this list is for you. Here are 100 browser agent ideas you can build today — from the highly practical to the delightfully weird.

Productivity & Workflow

These browser agents help you save time, reduce repetitive tasks, and focus on what matters most.

1
Schedule reviewer — Reads through your calendar, finds meetings, and reports back to you with details
2
Email triage agent — Scans your inbox, classifies messages (urgent, FYI, follow-up), and drafts quick replies
3
CRM updater — Reads through Gmail threads, then automatically updates deal stages or contact notes in your CRM.
4
Daily task generator — Scrape starred emails and turn them into a prioritized to-do list.
5
Metrics snapshot — Log in to dashboards and grab yesterday’s KPIs, compiling them into one page.
6
Research compiler — Runs a search on a topic, visits the top pages, extracts insights, and saves them to Notion or a doc.
7
Meeting action item collector — After a Zoom call, scrapes the transcript and posts summarized tasks to Slack.
8
Data validation agent — Visits a data dashboard and ensures reported numbers match underlying sources.
9
Invoice collector — Download monthly invoices from SaaS tools and save to Google Drive.
10
Form filler — Automates filling in web forms (visa status, job application) and submitting them.

A Kernel example here: we had a user running agents to fill in forms on government sites: filling in over 400 forms with dozens of agents running simultaneously

Research & Data Gathering

Great for researchers, analysts, and anyone who wants to keep up with fast-moving information.

1
Job board scraper — Collect listings across multiple boards and aggregate them into one view.
2
Academic alert bot — Monitor journals for new papers matching your keywords.
3
RFP monitor — Check government portals daily for new requests for proposals.
4
Backlink tracker — Find all new backlinks to your site.
5
Competitor price monitor — Scrape competitor sites weekly and update a shared sheet.
6
Trend collector — Pull trending Reddit or Hacker News posts into a single dashboard.
7
Conference CFP tracker — Collect open calls for papers and deadlines.
8
Economic data fetcher — Collects macro indicators from multiple sources.
9
Broken link finder — Detect and report broken links on your site automatically.
10
Review sentiment bot — Analyze customer reviews across platforms and summarize key themes.

A Kernel example here: we had a user go through companies in the trucking space to retrieve all the jobs at those companies (demo video here of it)

Social Media & Content

Perfect for creators, marketers, and anyone building an audience.

1
Engage on social media — Get browser agents to like certain posts for you, filtering by type of content or user.
2
Cross-poster — Automatically post your new blog across Twitter, LinkedIn, and Mastodon.
3
Hashtag engager — Like and comment on posts with your target hashtags.
4
Follower greeter — Send a friendly DM to every new follower.
5
Tweet-to-LinkedIn converter — Repurpose tweets into LinkedIn-friendly posts.
6
Competitor content tracker — Aggregate competitor posts into a research dashboard.
7
Content fetcher — Let your agent search for specific types of content on social media and report their findings back to you.
8
Job searcher — Have an agent go through social media to look for relevant job opportunities that match what you’re looking for.
9
Engagement tracker — Visualize competitor engagement trends over time.
10
Funding finder — Set an agent loose on searching through social media to find recent funding announcements from startups.

Here’s someone using Perplexity Comet to find posts to engage with on LinkedIn: filtering for certain posts to like, comment, and interact with

E-commerce & Shopping

Turn the browser into your personal shopping assistant.

1
Flight booker — Let an agent search for flights that match your schedule
2
Price drop alert — Notify you when products you want fall below a certain price.
3
Checkout filler — Fills in checkout forms and shipping information for you.
4
Online reviews analyzer — Summarize product reviews with pros/cons.
5
Price comparator — Compare prices across multiple online retailers instantly.
6
Category trend analyzer — Creates a report of fast-growing niches and trends.
7
Delivery tracker — Collect shipping updates across all orders and display in one central place.
8
Reservation filler — Books a table or campsite with your personal details.
9
Flight price comparator — Compares flight prices across a variety of sources.
10
Competitor ad collector — Looks through ads and positioning similar to the product you’re looking at and creates a central comparison summary document.

An example here: Pedro Aquino wrote an article earlier this year about using Browser Use to have a browser agent book flights, check it out here

Developer Tools

Browser agents can supercharge engineering workflows.

1
Documentation searcher — Finds code snippets from docs.
2
PR reviewer — Summarizes pull requests and code diffs.
3
Changelog summarizer — Collects updates across repos.
4
Docs translator — Converts documentation to multiple languages.
5
GitHub project analyzer — Searches for relevant projects based on your preferences.
6
Pull request opener — Pre-fill PR descriptions based on commit history.
7
CI/CD monitor — Aggregate build statuses from multiple pipelines.
8
Responsive screenshot generator — Take screenshots at multiple resolutions for QA.
9
Competitor docs watcher — Monitor competitor documentation for updates.
10
Open-source scanner — Searches through open-source documents for related insight.

A tangential item here within the developer / engineering realm: Kernel recently launched Replays, which allow users to see true video recordings of what the browser saw and can help developers see the exact actions taken

Fun, Quirky, and Experimental

Some agents are just for fun — and those are often the most viral.

1
YouTube script analyzer — Extracts topics and summaries from the transcript.
2
Reddit searcher — Searches through information on Reddit to find targeted content.
3
Food discoverer — Tell the agent to find you a certain type of restaurant in your area.
4
Newsletter compiler — Reads through your newsletters and summarizes in a doc.
5
Quote finder — Extracts notable quotes from books or blogs.
6
Find polling data — Search through sites for political polling insights.
7
Wikipedia summarizer — Goes through a long wikipedia page & gives you a summary.
8
Podcast note taker — Summarizes show notes and timestamps from the transcript.
9
Event searcher — Finds local events relevant to your schedule and location.
10
Podcast finder — Searches through podcast shows and finds one for you.

Andrew Wilkinson is a well known founder (founder of Tiny, +500k followers) who made a cool agent earlier this year tied to booking restaurants through a voice and browser agent hybrid

Enterprise & Internal Use Cases

Perfect for internal teams and B2B startups.

1
Competitor hiring tracker — Scrape job postings to spot hiring trends.
2
Contract renewal tracker — Remind procurement teams of upcoming renewals.
3
Compliance form filler — Auto-fill repetitive SOC 2 compliance forms.
4
Brand monitor — Track company mentions across the news.
5
Lead extractor — Pull leads from public databases into Salesforce.
6
Regulation watcher — Flag when relevant rules change.
7
Market share tracker — Automate quarterly competitive research.
8
Design system checker — Detect design inconsistencies across web pages.
9
RFP downloader — Auto-download relevant RFPs from procurement portals.
10
Security scanner — Run vulnerability scans from a web UI.

Dongting Yu has a solid blog post here about using browser agents in compliance and security related fields: including concepts like an ai auditor, etc.

Education & Learning

Use browser agents to become a more effective learner.

1
Homework summarizer — Reads through your google docs / notion links and creates a cohesive, centralized summary.
2
Course comparer — Finds relevant online courses and compares them for you.
3
Syllabus scraper — Collect syllabi from multiple universities for comparison.
4
Citation finder — Find missing citations in a research paper draft.
5
Learning streak tracker — Remind you to complete daily lessons.
6
Textbook price agent — Finds cheapest editions online.
7
Scholarship alert bot — Watches for new scholarship listings.
8
Lecture summarizer — Summarize online lecture transcripts.
9
MOOC aggregator — Combine multiple course platforms into one feed.
10
Paper summarizer — Extract key insights from academic PDFs.

Related to this, some browser agent tools were banned at a variety of schools and colleges, as students were using agents to help with homework, quizzes, and projects.

Finance & Investing

Agents that keep you financially informed.

1
Stock price pinger — Notify you when a stock crosses a price threshold.
2
Portfolio analyzer — Pulls through emails and relevant links for a portfolio analysis.
3
M&A summarizer — Reads through multiple sources and summarizes relevant info.
4
Earnings analyzer — Goes through various earnings docs and creates an analysis.
5
Budget scraper — Download bank transactions and categorize spending.
6
Financial news summarizer — Condenses daily market updates.
7
Risk sentiment reader — Parses social sentiment on financial topics.
8
Personal finance dashboard — Aggregate net worth across multiple accounts.
9
Inflation data agent — Compiles CPI and PPI releases.
10
Hedge fund filing summarizer — Reviews 13F data.

A detailed medium article from this spring gives a good outlook on stock trading with agentic systems (although in fairness the writer of the article founded the co he’s writing about lol)

Health & Fitness

Because why not automate your wellness too?

1
Recipe scraper — Save healthy recipes into a weekly plan.
2
Water reminder — Ping you every hour to drink water.
3
Step goal checker — Pull step count data and remind you if you’re behind.
4
Workout video finder — Curate trending workout routines daily.
5
Calorie tracker — Compiles and logs meals from delivery receipts.
6
Wearables analyzer — Reviews data from all of your wearables and compiles insights.
7
Mood journal — Prompt you to log mood once per day.
8
Sleep analyzer — Reviews your sleep scores from your wearables and creates a plan.
9
Longevity audit — Goes through your provided biometric data and creates a report.
10
Doctor appointment scheduler — Auto-find and book available slots in your insurance network.

Some in the healthcare space have already tapped into this: Pager Health launched an agent earlier this year to guide some of their platform users through health plans

Wrapping Up

These 100 browser agent ideas are just scratching the surface. Browser automation and agentic workflows are opening up a new class of applications — ones that sit in the background, do the boring work for you, and surface only when there’s something you need to act on. The best part? Many of these ideas can be built in a weekend.

If you’re a developer, consider trying one of these as a side project. If you’re a startup founder, think about which of these could solve a painful problem for thousands of people. And if you’re just curious about the future of computing, keep an eye on this space — browser agents are just getting started :)

100 Browser Agents You Can Build Today