Why Browser Agents Waste 99% of Their Tokens (And...

Every browser agent pays a hidden tax: tokens. When an agent visits a webpage, it dumps the DOM into an LLM. The LLM reads thousands of elements, reasons about which button to click, and generates a tool call. Then it does it again. And again. For a 10-step workflow, that's 25+ LLM round trips. Context grows with each step because conversation history accumulates. By step 10, you're sending 175,000 tokens per action. At frontier model pricing, that's roughly $4 for one workflow execution. Run it