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Two communities share this category and they often don't realise it. QA engineers want determinism, headless speed, and a stable selector strategy — Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium and forks. AI builders want a model-in-the-loop stack that can finish a multi-step task without supervision when the page changes — browser-use, Stagehand, web-operator harnesses. The first group is mature; the second is interesting. Playwright and Puppeteer still dominate the head of the leaderboard because every AI browser project depends on them. The newer entrants pair those primitives with DOM-graph reasoning, retries, and a model in the steering loop. Honest read: the agentic half isn't as production-ready as the demos suggest. Anti-bot defences, captchas, and shifting DOM structure break runs that worked yesterday. The ranking weights cross-source mention activity alongside GitHub stars, so quietly-adopted libraries surface alongside the headline breakouts.