Open-source browser agent for completing web tasks from plain-language prompts
Scout is a TypeScript browser-agent SDK that reads pages and autonomously clicks, types, scrolls, and extracts answers for multi-step web tasks. Developers can run it with a local Playwright browser or Outcrawl’s hosted browser service, while supplying their own chat-completions-compatible AI models.
Agenticness = how independently a tool can take action, scored across 9 dimensions. Scored independently by David Kooi, Skylark Creations — see full rubric → Last re-evaluated 11 November 2026.
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Scout is an open-source browser automation agent from Outcrawl for developers who want to turn natural-language tasks into browser actions. You give it a task such as researching a site, comparing products, filling a form, or signing in; it uses a...
Scout is genuinely agentic: it can execute multi-step browser workflows rather than merely suggesting steps. Its separate model roles let developers trade off speed and capability—for example, using a fast model for page actions and an image-capable...
Proposes and executes multi-step plans with your approval.
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Free and open source (Apache-2.0). Running locally with Playwright costs nothing beyond your own model calls. Cloud runs use Outcrawl's hosted browser and are billed as Outcrawl browser sessions; every Outcrawl account gets 1,000 free credits a month, no card needed.
When Scout changes its pricing, we catch it the next morning
We recrawl every tool in this directory daily. AI Insider is the 3-minute brief on what actually changed — pricing, features, score moves on our 36-point rubric — often before any press coverage. Sent daily. Skipped when nothing happened.