ego lite is a browser explicitly designed for AI agents to perform web automation tasks in parallel, providing a dedicated environment that maintains your logged-in browser state without manual configuration or repeated authentication. Developed by Citro Labs, this browser is built on a custom Chromium engine that enables AI agents to execute complex web-based workflows significantly faster and more efficiently than standard automation libraries like Playwright or Puppeteer. By allowing your agents to operate in their own isolated spaces, it ensures that your daily browsing activity remains uninterrupted while the agent handles tasks such as scraping data, managing SaaS back-offices, or submitting forms.

Functionality includes acting as the interface between any agent Command Line Interface (CLI) and your browser sessions. Through the ego-browser skill, agents can access and manipulate web pages using in-page JavaScript tools, which reduces token consumption by compressing browser snapshots rather than relying on raw HTML. This architecture allows for parallel multitasking where multiple agent tasks run simultaneously in separate workspaces, completing browser operations up to 3.45x faster than other frameworks. The browser manages all login sessions, cookies, and extensions imported from your existing Chrome installation, enabling agents to navigate sites requiring authentication seamlessly.

Some of the key features are:

• Isolated Spaces: Creates separate workspaces for AI agents and human users to prevent tab collision and mouse focus conflicts.
• Optimized Snapshots: Uses compressed semantic page snapshots to significantly reduce token costs during agent interactions.
• Native Chrome Import: Imports all bookmarks, passwords, extensions, and logged-in sessions from Google Chrome with a single click.
• Skill-Based Integration: Installs as an automatic skill into popular agent CLIs including Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.
• High-Speed Execution: Runs multiple in-page actions in single JavaScript executions, outperforming traditional one-tool-at-a-time frameworks.
• Privacy-First Design: Processes and stores all browsing data, cookies, and history locally on the user's machine without external tracking.
• Cross-Origin Support: Reliably interacts with complex elements like shadow DOM, iframes, and third-party SDK widgets.

Operation is straightforward: upon installation, ego lite migrates your existing Chrome profile. Agents are then equipped with the ego-browser skill, which allows them to receive commands through a terminal interface. When a user requests a task—such as summarizing a blog post or monitoring competitor pricing—the agent automatically opens a dedicated space, navigates to the required site using your credentials, performs the necessary interactions, and returns the result. You retain the ability to switch into any space at any time to monitor or assist the agent.

Some common use cases include:

• Social Media Management: Automatically scrape engagement metrics, pull account activity, and queue posts across multiple platforms like X, LinkedIn, and Reddit.
• Job Application Automation: Use an AI agent to search job boards, fill in application forms using your saved resume data, and prepare submissions for human review.
• Real Estate & Finance Analysis: Filter listings by budget and location, calculate mortgage estimates, or track stock portfolio performance in one pass.
• Automated Bookings: Handle complex flight, hotel, or restaurant booking flows by auto-filling personal details up to the final payment stage.
• SaaS Back-Office Operations: Manage admin panels in tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, or Linear to generate reports and bulk-update entries automatically.