If you're building AI agents that work with browser screenshots, you already know the pain. You take...
If you're building AI agents that work with browser screenshots, you already know the pain.
You take a full 1920×1080 screenshot, pass it to GPT-4o or Claude, and watch your token bill climb — while the model downscales the image anyway and blurs the exact text you needed it to read.
There's a better way.
The problem
Vision LLMs are expensive for two reasons when you feed them full screenshots:
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I gave an agent a fetch_page tool, asked it to read one Wikipedia article, and watched that single...
