The Full Snapshot Guide: Serialising Web Application UI State for LLMs

By Thassilo SchiepanskiAugust 28, 20251 min read

LLMs have become the go-to web agents – autonomous systems that browse the web not only on benhalf of, but also like a human. The LLM thereby is a plug-in reasoning backend that abstracts a formal model of web UIs and the web browsing problem. The agent loop is divided into the way to the LLM. The central challenge is

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