Overcoming Barriers to Open-Source Agents with Browser-Runnable AI Agents
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Summary
The article discusses overcoming barriers to open-source agents by enabling them to run in browsers as HTML files.
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In this post, we show how to write agents as HTML files, which can just be opened and run in a browser.
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