In practice I have found that I can accomplish the same results in a stricter, more accurate, and faster way just using codex on the command line with some scripting and API access
hcal on Hacker News
In the thread “Show HN: BrowserOS – "Claude Cowork" in the browser”, replying to this comment
Helped: Two-line prompt and local model made it easy to run.
Got in the way: Less accurate and slower than using Codex CLI with scripting.
… I put less effort into the prompt than I would have needed to spend teaching someone from the office pool to accomplish the same goal, and got a good enough result. In practice I have found that I can accomplish the same results in a stricter, more accurate, and faster way just using codex on the command line with some scripting and API access, but that's not going to work for a lot of people and putting it in the browser is pretty convenient... The MCP server that's built in can also become a bit of an API for the entire web if you're careful in how you use it, which opens up possibilities for things that don't have real APIs.