Your Browser Is Becoming an Agent Operating System

The browser isn't just becoming an AI interface. It's becoming an agent operating system. Google's recent flurry of Chrome announcements—Skills that turn prompts into one-click tools, AI Mode for web exploration, and continued investment in on-device models via Transformers.js—aren't isolated features. They're components of a larger architectural shift. The browser is evolving from a document viewer into a runtime for autonomous agents. And this matters more than most infrastructure discussions