Surprise Launch Day 2: OpenRouter Support is Live in Skyvern

TL;DR Plug any OpenRouter-hosted model into your automations with one env toggle. No code changes, no redeploys. # docker-compose.env ENABLE_OPENROUTER=true LLM_KEY=OPENROUTER OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-… OPENROUTER_MODEL=qwen/qwen2.5-vl-32b-instruct Why you might care * BYOM (Bring your own model) – swap models in minutes. * Full Skyvern

Surprise Launch Day 1: Credit Card Support

Today we’re launching a major super-power for your browser automations: securely add credit cards once and let Skyvern handle checkouts end-to-end Why this matters * One-click setup – Save a card in seconds; via API or via our UI. Skyvern stores it inside a secure vault. * Hands-free automations – Your agents can

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Most automation tools are closed boxes. Skyvern is different. It’s one of the only open-source, browser-native AI automation platforms — and it’s built for developers who want flexibility, control, and infrastructure-grade power. Here’s what you should know if you're evaluating Skyvern from a dev perspective 👇 🧠 LLM

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Web Bench - A new way to compare AI Browser Agents

TL;DR: Web Bench is a new dataset to evaluate web browsing agents that consists of 5,750 tasks on 452 different websites, with 2,454 tasks being open sourced. Anthropic Sonnet 3.7 CUA is the current SOTA, with the detailed results here. Over the past few months, Web

How To Automate Anything In Your Browser Without Code 🐉

If you’re still copying data from one tab to another or downloading reports by hand, you’re giving away hours you’ll never get back. Modern AI browser agents—like the open-source platform Skyvern—let you hand off those chores without writing a single line of code. This article

Startup Learnings: Nirvana Fallacy

Here's O3's definition: Nirvana fallacy: rejecting a workable solution because it isn’t perfect—an easy way to stall real progress while chasing an imaginary ideal. This is a common pitfall that engineers like me run into "But it won't work in this

8 Browser Workflows with Skyvern 🐉

Some business-critical chores still hide behind login screens, pop-ups, and “Download” buttons that no API can reach. Skyvern’s AI browser agent bridges that gap. Give it a plain-English description of the job, and it sees the page like a human, decides where to click or type, and gets the

Build Your AI Business on Skyvern 🐉

From virtual assistants to productivity SaaS, the next generation of AI companies needs a rock-solid way to interact with the web the same way humans do. Skyvern gives you that foundation: an open-source, prompt-based browser agent that combines large-language models with computer vision to click, type and scroll its way

13K Github stars and why star count isn't our primary metric

⭐ We hit 13K GITHUB STARS!!! What a big milestone!! But.. what if we told you that we stopped tracking star count as a top line metric 6 months ago? Star count is similar to user signups. It's a vanity metric. It's a great metric that'

Why MCP is a big deal

I've seen a lot of skepticism around MCP on the internet. I'm here to convince you everyone is wrong MCP is real and valuable. It's an extremely simple protocol – it's an API spec that tells an LLM how to use a tool.

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Skyvern MCP Server: let agents control your browser

We were playing around with MCPs over the weekend and thought it would be cool to build an MCP that lets Claude / Cursor / Windsurf control your browser: https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern/tree/main/integrations/mcp Just for context, we’re building Skyvern, an open source AI Agent that can

10 Insights from YC's Open Source conference

Got invited to a private YC Open Source conferences last week Here are my top 10 takeaways from it! 1 - The old age of open source (pre-2015) was crazy 2 - Apparently it was normal to donate your open source project to the Apache organization? 3 - There are

New Drop: Skyvern x N8N

Gather ‘round! Our integration in n8n (community node) is finally here! n8n is a workflow automation platform that empowers technical teams to build complex, multi-step workflows using their 400+ native integrations, with an even richer community node ecosystem Why Integrate into n8n? Is it fate? Is it science? Don’t

How AI Agents Navigate Old Websites

You've probably dealt with those outdated websites or really clunky online portals and  you know how frustrating they can be. Maybe you’ve had to log into a government site with a somewhat ancient interface, submit a job application through a very slow, multi-step process, or extract data

Shipping Fast and Furiously

How do you know you built something people wanted? When you get users start using it and complaining before you even have a chance to announce its launch This has happened at Skyvern many times... but the most recent is the most fascinating We secretly launched support for credentials almost

A Major Update - Credentialing in Skyvern

🗣️ You can now store credentials directly in Skyvern! Until now, the only way to manage credentials was through Bitwarden. Time and time again, we heard the same feedback—signing up, onboarding, and configuring was was annoyingly high maintenance. With this release, you can now add, save, and link credentials into

Skyvern's first autonomous order

Hit a major Skyvern milestone Skyvern finished its first autonomous order. End to End. This wasn't a demonstration -- this was a real order being placed to automate something very core to a business we've been working closely with Here are all of the steps it

Error Handling in Browser Automation

I don't think we can deny the fact that automation has changed how we approach repetitive tasks by saving time and eliminating the monotony of manual work. However, when automating tasks in browsers, errors can quickly become somewhat of a roadblock. From stuff like page timeouts to CAPTCHA

Huge milestone alert: 🌟 12K GITHUB STARS 🌟

🌟 TWELVE THOUSAND 🌟 Here are some interesting star milestone facts 1. Going from 0 - 5K took as long as going from 5K - 12K 2. We stopped looking at star count as a top line metric when we launched Skyvern Cloud 3. Star count is not correlated with our discord

Changelog - January 2025 - Hot off the press

In the words of Gen Z, we were cooking this month and have a lot of interesting changes to share with you! Launch Skyvern 2.0 “Observer” We dropped Skyvern 2.0! It’s a major re-design of Skyvern’s agent, introducing a planner and a validator to allow Skyvern

New Collab: Ben AI x Skyvern, Automate the browser with WhatsApp voice messages

Excited to announce our latest collab! Ben builds the coolest AI agents on n8n and Relevance AI and gives them access to a bunch of tools to let them complete REAL WORK. You know what the most ambitious and underrated tool is? Giving an AI agent access to the internet.

Launching Skyvern's Jobs Agent: Automate Job Applications with AI

Being in the job market is tough. It’s a grueling process of continuously filling out applications, hours of time spent filling out the same questions again and again for jobs that often don’t give the applicant the courtesy of a rejection email. It fits all of the criteria

Product Hunt Launch Checklist

We ended up #3 in the day, only a stone's throw away from dethroning OpenAI's DeepResearch launch launch Here was our checklist to make this magic happen: 1. We started preparing ~1 week in advance 2. We created specific visuals highlighting Skyvern's features that

Browser Automation Security Best Practices

If you're thinking about using browser automation to get your workflows streamlined, you're already ahead of the game. And if you're already using it, well… you're a real superstar. It's pretty much a lifesaver for any repetitive tasks like filling