01Browser agents
An agent that works where you work.
The web is where the work happens. We tested Cook’s desktop browser on real websites: finding information, navigating complex pages, and carrying a task through to completion.
Read the paper: Cook Browser: Completing Work on the Live Web →- 99.0%AsidePublished · 300 tasks
- 97.7%Browser UseReference benchmark panel
- 93.4%Cook BrowserDesktop · adjusted cohort
- 92.8%GPT-5.4Reference benchmark panel
- 84.0%Claude Opus 4.8Reference benchmark panel
- 70.0%ChatGPT AtlasReference benchmark panel
Cook: 268/287 after 13 impossible tasks were excluded; 268/300 (89.3%) across the full cohort. Merged baseline and targeted reruns. Aside: 297/300. Different runs and scoring policies; published reference, not a controlled head-to-head. Other competitors reproduce the reference benchmark panel; evaluation setups differ.
- 94.0%Cook BrowserDesktop · 100 tasks · best run per task
- 93.0%AsidePublished · 100 tasks
- 89.5%Browser UseReference benchmark panel
- 80.0%Claude Fable 5Reference benchmark panel
- 68.0%GPT-5.5Reference benchmark panel
- 58.0%Gemini 3.6 FlashReference benchmark panel
Cook: 94/100 tasks passed in their best graded run (up to 9 graded runs per task, 1.64 on average); 84/100 (84.0%) in each task's first graded run. Not counted: 1 repeat run that an LLM judge found reused an earlier attempt's saved work. September 2026, full suite, official BU Bench judge from Aside's repository. Aside: 93/100 published. Different actors and run policies; published reference, not a controlled head-to-head. Other competitors reproduce the reference benchmark panel; evaluation setups differ.
- 95.6%Cook BrowserDesktop · 200 tasks · best run per task
- 88.8%AsidePublished · rubric items
- 70.0%Browser UseReference benchmark panel
- 60.8%WebWrightReference benchmark panel
- 44.5%Claude Opus 4.6Reference benchmark panel
- 33.5%GPT-5.4Reference benchmark panel
Cook: 1,171/1,225 rubric items in each task's best graded run across all 200 tasks (up to 29 graded runs per task); 867/1,225 (70.8%) in the first graded run; 182/200 tasks met every item (4 of them in runs where Cook's desktop agent drove Google Chrome on a Mac instead of Cook's own browser engine). Not counted: 28 repeat runs that an LLM judge found reused an earlier attempt's saved work. September 2026, official Odysseys judge from Aside's repository. Aside: 1,050/1,182 rubric items across 200 tasks. Rubric totals and run policies differ; context, not an equivalent evaluation. Other competitors reproduce the reference benchmark panel; evaluation setups differ.
Persistence is part of intelligence.
The browser research led to better long-running task persistence, explicit tab management, and more reliable handling of final answers and rich browser results.