Hosted browser agents arrive
OpenAI’s Operator put a computer-use agent in a product wrapper. Merchants faced a choice: deterministic machine checkout, or DOM automation against human pages.
2025-01
What happened
OpenAI’s Operator put a computer-use agent in a product wrapper. Merchants faced a choice: deterministic machine checkout, or DOM automation against human pages.
OpenAI introduces Operator, a computer-use agent
A hosted agent that uses a browser is adjacent to, not the same as, a 402 client.
MCP server directories become an agent discovery surface
Registries and catalogs now sit between tool authors and agent runtimes.