Week 45, updated 2 Nov 2026

Research & web data Browser Use

Is Browser Use safe?

Short answer: Caution. StackGrade's weekly scan of browser-use/browser-use gives it a Caution label for a skill or agent instruction file (skills/cloud/references/quickstart.md) that tells the agent to pipe a remote script into a shell. Automated scan of commit b49a68e on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit.

Updated : the last week its score, rank or safety result changed.

Python library that lets AI agents use a web browser.

  • 119,790 stars
  • pushed 2 Nov
  • MIT
  • Python

github.com/browser-use/browser-use · browser-use.com

62score out of 100

#15of 52 overall#2in Research & web data▲ 5 vs Week 44

  • Maintenance 30%49
  • Adoption 30%69
  • Docs 20%69
  • Community 20%–
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Score over the last 4 weeks: 52, 55, 57, 62.

Caution

Skill/agent file instructs piping a remote script into a shell: skills/cloud/references/quickstart.md.

How this score works

Each part is a percentile among all 52 tracked tools, so 50 is average for this list. Community is not measured yet; the score uses the other 80%.

  • Maintenance: Last push 2 Nov 2026. Last 10 GitHub releases within 102 days (about 2.7 per 30 days), latest release 26 Oct 2026. Issue close time: fewer than 5 closed issues, so not used.
  • Adoption: 119,790 stars (70%), 13,348 forks (30%).
  • Docs: README 19,712 characters, 15 headings, 11 code blocks, install section: yes.

Methodology

#2 of 6 in Research & web data

Ranked by score. The yellow row is this tool.

Research & web data, Week 45score 0–100, safety
  1. 1Firecrawl#1 overall78No issues found
  2. 2Browser Use#15 overall62Caution
  3. 3MarkItDown#22 overall54No dependencies scanned
  4. 4Crawl4AI#26 overall52Caution
  5. 5GPT Researcher#46 overall31Caution
  6. 6STORM#49 overall26Caution

Safety scan, 2 Nov 2026

Automated scan of commit b49a68e, 510 files. Not a manual audit.

Caution

  • –DependenciesNo runtime lockfile or manifest, so nothing to check.
  • 0Install hooksNo npm install scripts found.
  • 0Remote-code patternsFor example eval(fetch(…)).
  • 38Agent files checked1 file tells the agent to pipe a script into a shell.
  • 3curl | sh installersIn docs or program code. Information only.
Why this label?

Why this label:

  • Skill/agent file instructs piping a remote script into a shell: skills/cloud/references/quickstart.md — curl -fsSL https://browser-use.com/profile.sh | sh

Known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV): no lockfiles/manifests detected by osv-scanner

Also found (informational, does not change the label):

  • Program code runs a curl|sh style installer (2 occurrences, e.g. bin/setup.sh)
  • Documents curl|sh style installer (1 occurrence, e.g. .github/workflows/install-script.yml)

Notes:

  • Telemetry/analytics references in code: telemetry, mixpanel

Automated scan of commit b49a68e on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit. 510 files checked. What we check

Repo activity

From the GitHub API, fetched 2 Nov 2026.

  • 7Releases, 90 daysLatest 0.13.14, 26 Oct
  • –Median issue closeFewer than 5 closed issues
  • 120kStars+648 since 26 Oct
  • 13.3kForks616 open issues
  • 2024Repo created31 Oct 2024
30 days ago2 Nov
4 releases in the last 30 days, one mark each (GitHub releases feed, last 10 entries).

4 releases in the last 30 days (GitHub releases feed, last 10 entries):

Questions about Browser Use

Answers use this week's StackGrade data.

Is Browser Use safe to use?

Caution. StackGrade's weekly scan of browser-use/browser-use gives it a Caution label for a skill or agent instruction file (skills/cloud/references/quickstart.md) that tells the agent to pipe a remote script into a shell. Automated scan of commit b49a68e on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit.

How does StackGrade score Browser Use?

Browser Use scores 62 out of 100 in Week 45: #15 of 52 tracked tools overall and #2 in Research & web data. The score combines maintenance (49), adoption (69) and docs (69) as percentiles among all 52 tracked tools; community (20% weight) is not measured yet, so the score uses the other 80%. It is not a hands-on test and it is separate from the safety label.

What are the alternatives to Browser Use?

The highest-scored other tools in Research & web data this week: Firecrawl (78, No issues found), MarkItDown (54, No dependencies scanned), Crawl4AI (52, Caution), GPT Researcher (31, Caution). StackGrade has not tested them hands-on.

What licence does Browser Use use?

The licence listed for browser-use/browser-use is MIT. Read the licence text before commercial use.

Compare and use it

All facts and sources
Type
AI tool
License
MIT
Language
Python
Created
31 Oct 2024
Owner
browser-use (Organization)
Forks
13,348

GitHub description: “Open-source Python library for AI browser agents, plus Browser Use Cloud: stealth browsers and a hosted agent API.”

Sources: github.com/browser-use/browser-use, api.github.com/repos/browser-use/browser-use, raw.githubusercontent.com/browser-use/browser-use/main/READM. Fetched 2 Nov 2026.

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