One Open Source Project a Day (No.39): OpenCLI - Turning Any Website Into a Zero-Cost CLI Tool for AI Agents

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Introduction "AI consumes intelligence at generation time. At execution time, it consumes nothing." This is article No.74 in the "One Open Source Project a Day" series. Today's project is OpenCLI ( GitHub ). The dominant approach to having AI Agents interact with browsers today is to let the LLM analyze the DOM or a screenshot in real time, then decide what to click. This has two fundamental problems: every execution burns a large number of tokens, and the results are unstable — the same operation might succeed today and fail tomorrow because the page changed slightly...