Changelog #000

Happy AGI day (?) & inaugural changelog post. I wanted to share some updates we made to Steel over the last few weeks!

⭐ New

  • Just launched a new MCP server for Claude Desktop integration that lets Claude visually browse & interact with the web using our Browser API and Web Voyager
  • Works with self-hosted, local, and cloud implementations
  • Built on a custom Web Voyager implementation using Bounding Boxes and Custom tools to map webpages into LLM action spaces
  • Check it out: https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-mcp-server

🔧 40+ Bugfixes like

  • Fixed billing page + usage tracking issues
  • Resolved rate limit errors
  • Resolved session creation bugs with large request volumes
  • Fixed compatibility issues with Windows for OS repo
  • Improved recording extension handling, so it should be more stable now
  • Resolved session viewer crashes for sites >10MB
  • Fixed performance issues with loading certain sites in the open source repo

⚡Improvements

  • Large, complex sites now render in just a few seconds (instead of forever like before)
  • Session launch time improved by ~30%
  • Faster and clearer error messaging
  • Enhanced session viewer stability

🏡 Housekeeping

  • We're rolling out a Research Grants program to support AI researchers with Steel Credits! If you're working on web scraping research or exploring new ways for agents to use the web, reach out to research@steel.dev and we'd love to support you.
  • We're hiring across engineering roles! Looking for full stack, Applied AI, and infra developers who love open source, AI, and tackling challenging problems. Plus, there's a $5,000 referral bonus if you help us find the right person! More details: https://steel-dev.notion.site/jobs-at-steel

Thanks for testing out the Steel beta. We really look forward to more of your feedback and continuing to build with this awesome, curious, and supportive community. Happy Holidays ☃️

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