Gumpbox 1.11: Browser Use

Gumpbox 1.11 is available today. The headline is Browser Use: your AI agent can now drive a real browser on your server, and you can watch it work as it happens.

We built this because of a gap we kept running into. Agents in Gumpbox could already read servers, run commands, and build things inside sandboxes — but plenty of operational work still ends at a login page, an OAuth callback, or a confirm button that has no API. That part kept bouncing back to a human. Now the agent can take that over, with you watching.

What's new

• Browser sessions on your server. Each session is a Chromium container on a host you already manage — any host that already runs Gumpbox sandboxes qualifies, since it needs the same Docker setup, and the default session preset uses 1 GB of RAM. Nothing runs on your Mac, the viewer connects straight to your server over an SSH tunnel, and destroying a session cleans up the whole container.
• Agent control via MCP. Navigate, click, type, scroll, read pages, open and close tabs, take screenshots — the same interface your agent already uses for everything else in Gumpbox.
• A live viewer. Sessions stream to a window on your Mac over noVNC, keystroke by keystroke. There's also a shareable viewer URL — the same live view in any browser, with a latency readout — useful for long runs or a teammate.
• Browser profiles. Import cookies and bookmarks from Chrome, Edge, Brave, or Arc on your Mac and apply them to a session, so the agent starts already signed in. Cookies and bookmarks travel through Apple Keychain — never through the agent.
• Every tier, every platform. Included for all users on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

Two decisions worth explaining

An agent only drives while someone is watching. Control lasts as long as a viewer is open. Close the viewer and driving stops within seconds; the browser session itself keeps running, so nothing is lost. We know unattended browser agents are technically possible — we chose not to ship one. This felt like the right place to start, and it's where we'll keep it until we have a better answer than "trust it."

Your input pauses while the agent drives. While an agent holds control, your keyboard doesn't reach the browser, so you and the agent never fight over the cursor. Closing the viewer always stops the agent's control.

What's still rough

This is a first release of a feature that drives real websites, and real websites are creative about breaking. Some flows will misbehave. When something does, tell us on Discord — reports from these releases have shaped more fixes than any roadmap we've written.

Availability

Gumpbox 1.11 is on the App Store now — free to download, with the optional one-time $19.99 PRO unlock for unlimited servers, iCloud sync, and local backup/restore. If you already use Gumpbox, the update is free.

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