Hey HN! We built a browser-based agent that runs inside an authenticated web app, watches how the app calls its own APIs, and automatically turns those into agent tools. You can think of it as an auto-generated MCP server that self-updates as the host app changes.
The result is a skilled AI assistant that actually integrates deeply with any product (not just chat and RAG) with minimal effort.
Check out these short demos below that show the agent in software you're probably familiar with:
- Jira: https://demo.frigade.com/hn?skill=jira
- Spotify: https://demo.frigade.com/hn?skill=spotify
- Hacker News (lol): https://demo.frigade.com/hn?skill=hackernews
- Full Demo: https://demo.frigade.com/hn?skill=full-demo
As you can see in the examples, you can do way more (and faster) than what you normally would be able to via point and click. And we never even touched the source code of these products!
Why do this?
In an ideal world, every application has an MCP server or an easily-digestible API available for AI agents to feed from. In practice, we found that even very modern software tends to have a spider web of confusing APIs and services that AI agents simply cannot use out of the box. Security also becomes a huge issue as applications have different (often homebrewed) standards for how endpoints are secured (JWTs/cookies/mix of both). Finally, having an actual browser agent go in and use the application on behalf of the user (i.e. computer-use), is simply too brittle, slow, and burns a lot of tokens.
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