r/LocalLLaMA
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I built barebrowse: give a local-model agent a browser without Playwright — pruned ARIA snapshots instead of raw HTML (far fewer tokens)
Author here, sharing something I built. If you run agents on a local model, feeding a whole page as raw HTML burns your context fast. barebrowse turns a URL into a pruned ARIA snapshot — the semantic tree with nav/ads/boilerplate stripped — so each page is a fraction of the tokens. Useful when the context window is you