Hubcap – A single Go binary to automate Chrome via CDP

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Hi HN, I built this. Hubcap is a single Go binary that wraps CDP in 118 shell commands — navigation, DOM queries, screenshots, network interception, device emulation, accessibility audits, performance profiling, heap snapshots, and so on.Each command prints JSON to stdout and uses semantic exit codes (0 success, 1 error, 2 can't connect, 3 timeout), so they compose naturally with pipes and &&.I built it because I wanted AI agents to be able to do everything Chrome DevTools can do, not just the basics. Existing options were either too narrow (MCP browser tools cover click/navigate/fill but not network interception or heap snapshots) or too heavy (Puppeteer/Playwright are great but they're lib

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