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Browser Agent

The Browser Agent is a focused web-research agent for users who want GAIA’s browser tools without the full Chat Agent tool surface. It can search the web, fetch readable page text, and download files through the same path validation and web-client limits used by the broader agent stack.

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Quick start

Use interactive mode when you want to refine a web-research task over multiple turns:

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Tool surface

gaia browse --list-tools shows the exact tools available in your installed version. The focused Browser Agent exposes:
  • search_web for web search.
  • fetch_page for extracting readable page text.
  • download_file for saving a user-requested URL locally.
The Browser Agent does not register scratchpad or file-system analysis tools. Use gaia analyze for structured data work, or gaia chat when you need the broader mixed tool set.

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Local model options

By default, gaia browse uses the local Lemonade backend configured for GAIA. You can override the model or backend with the common agent flags:
In the Agent UI the browser appears as a single web card with a model-size selector — pick Lite (~4B) for shorter browser tasks on lighter hardware, or Full for the default model. (The old web-lite registry ID still resolves to web on the lite tier for existing sessions.)