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citrolabs/ego-lite

citrolabs/ego-lite is a developer tool that RepoRadar is tracking in its Radar section, currently rated Silver tier with a 'try now' verdict. Its strongest signal is momentum, scored 8.6 out of 10.

Score7.4
Popularity100.0
Risklow
TierSilver
Score breakdown
Usefulness7.8
Novelty7.5
Momentum8.6
Maturity7.9
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential8.5
Setup ease7.0

Popularity is tracked separately. Support, ads, sponsorships, and tips never affect these signals.

Why it matters

Useful for AI-coding-agent teams and platform teams that want a maintained MIT browser-for-AI-agents product with a clean ego-browser JS-callable agent surface (rather than another CLI subprocess layer) and that need authenticated flow access to production SaaS without copy-pasting session cookies, for developers who want to drive Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / custom agents through one browser

Where this stands now

citrolabs/ego-lite ranks #956 of 2402 tracked Radar items by composite score (7.4 against a section median of 5.2). The section currently carries 1295 Bronze, 645 Gold, 462 Silver. RepoRadar has retained observations for this record since 2026-08-14 (46 days in the current window). Signal extremes versus the section: momentum at the 85th percentile; novelty at the 70th percentile.

Who should use it

AI-coding-agent teams and platform teams that want a maintained MIT browser-for-AI-agents product with a clean ego-browser JS-callable agent surface (rather than another CLI subprocess layer) and that need authenticated flow access to production SaaS without copy-pasting session cookies developers who want to drive Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / custom agents through one browser process where each agent runs in an isolated Space and the human's own tabs stay untouched anyone evaluating a real citrolabs-published MIT alternative to the existing canonical browser-automation stack (browser-use/browser-harness, vercel-labs/agent-browser, lightpanda-io/browser, browseros-ai/BrowserOS) with the explicit differentiation point of Chrome-data inheritance + Spaces isolation

Who should skip it

Move on from citrolabs/ego-lite if the licensing terms, language support, or platform requirements do not fit your project.

About this signal

citrolabs/ego-lite is tracked by RepoRadar as a developer tool in the Radar section. First seen 2026-08-14; the source record was last checked on 2026-08-14. The current verdict is 'try now' with a Silver tier and easy setup difficulty. Across RepoRadar's eight signals, citrolabs/ego-lite is strongest on momentum (8.6) and workflow potential (8.5) and weakest on setup ease (7.0) — a profile worth weighing against your own priorities. This page summarizes the evidence RepoRadar captured from https://github.com/citrolabs/ego-lite.

How this item is evaluated

The citrolabs/ego-lite record combines a 7.4/10 composite score with separate popularity (100.0), risk (low), and setup (easy) signals. See the scoring methodology for the current weights and evidence definitions.

Putting this into practice? Read How to evaluate an AI tool before you adopt it for the checklist behind this score.

Risk explanation

macOS-only today -- Windows and Linux are on the roadmap but not yet shipping, so cross-platform agent teams should verify their dev fleet before relying on ego-browser as the canonical browser surface; Chrome data migration is opt-in but irreversible -- verify the migration prompt before granting access if you want a clean separation between your personal Chrome profile and the agent-aware browser; the ego-browser skill is portable JS so headless / remote setups are workable, but the heavy-lifting browser binary is macOS-only -- Linux / Windows users will be running the skill against a remote macOS ego (lite) instance until the native ports land; single-vendor (citrolabs) release surface -- watch the release notes and pin ego-browser skill versions explicitly for reproducibility, the same way you would for any narrowly-scoped release pipeline.

Evidence links
Closest alternatives / related signals
browser browser-automation browser-for-ai browser-agents ai-agent agent-skills skills-sh ego-browser
Verification record

What RepoRadar actually verified

Discovered

Automated discovery and source capture. Last checked 2026-09-29T05:09:59.243338Z.

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How this decision record is moving

Raw history JSON →

35 dated snapshots retained from 2026-08-14 through 2026-09-29; see the snapshot index for explicit coverage gaps. Stars, version, release, pricing, integration, risk, maintenance, verdict, score, and momentum fields remain explicit even when a source has not reported them. Repository momentum is a normalized 0–10 RepoRadar signal; GitHub stars appear only where the popularity monitor retained exact timestamped observations.

RepoRadar score7.4 current · +0.0 net
Repository momentum9.6 current · +1.0 net
GitHub stars (observed)16,651 current · +5,243 net
GitHub stars16,651 exact observation
Versionv2.0.0
Last release2026-09-10T08:31:24Z
MaintenanceActive
Current riskLow
Current verdictTry now
Pricing baselineNo structured commercial pricing baseline
Pricing checkedNot applicable or not recorded
Pricing freshnessNo dated commercial pricing review
Integrations baselineClaude Code, OpenAI Codex

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