Open Source Radar — August 15: agents get browsers & control planes

The coding-agent parade paused today — none of this week's workspace bets repeat, so the board is fresh. The signal is the layer around agents: a browser built to share with yours, a control plane for work that runs for days, and DeepSeek's official playbook for wiring its models into every agent tool. Three projects worth your attention.

ego-lite (JavaScript, ~10.6k stars) — A macOS browser built from the ground up for agent automation: your agents run browser tasks in their own Spaces while your tabs stay yours, and they can reach your real logins without you handing over a session. The pitch is that it fixes what browser-use-style automation frameworks get wrong — no separate browser to drive, no logins that break mid-task, fewer tokens per task — and it installs its browser skill into whatever agent you already run, Codex or Claude Code. Four months after launch it's on today's daily board at 10.6k stars, with Windows and Linux on the roadmap. If your agents keep flailing at logged-in web work, this is the most direct fix on the board.

LoopX (Python, ~4.8k stars) — An open, provider-neutral control plane for long-horizon agent work that sits on top of Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or your own harness instead of replacing it. It keeps the durable state — objectives, gates, typed todos, evidence, spend quota — outside the agent's chat memory, so work survives restarts, hands off cleanly between agents, and a human gets asked a concrete question when judgment is needed. That's the gap it names: an agent can finish a task in one session, but work that runs for days needs governance, and chat memory plus a timer isn't governance. Local-first and MIT-licensed, it's the most interesting attempt yet at making long-running agents reviewable instead of a black box you babysit.

awesome-deepseek-agent (~5.8k stars) — DeepSeek's official curated list of guides for running DeepSeek-V4-Pro and V4-Flash inside 20-plus agent tools — Claude Code, Codex, Cline, OpenCode, Qwen Code, Hermes, and a dozen more. Each guide walks through installation, configuration, and first run, which makes this the canonical map for teams that want DeepSeek's models as their agent backend without fighting scattered docs. It's a catalog, not a runtime — but it's also the clearest sign yet that DeepSeek is consolidating its ecosystem playbook, and it landed on today's board at 5.8k stars. If you're shopping for a model backend for your agents, this is the list to start from.

Worth watching this week: all three point the same way — agents are getting a proper operating layer, from shared browsers to durable state to official integration playbooks.

Would you hand your logged-in browser to an agent, or keep it sandboxed? Tell us in the comments.

Sources: ego-lite (GitHub) · LoopX (GitHub) · Awesome DeepSeek Agent (GitHub)

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