Refrain – Generate browser automations with AI, replay them without AI

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Hey HN, I'm timakin. Refrain is a CLI that uses an AI agent to generate browser automation runbooks, then replays them deterministically with no LLM calls.You give it a URL and a goal ("log in and export the sales dashboard"). An AI agent explores the site in a headless browser, records each action, and outputs a YAML runbook. After that, the runbook replays on its own.When UIs change and selectors break, multi -stage recovery pipeline kicks in — tries deterministic fixes first, falls back to AI only when needed, then patches the runbook so the next run is deterministic again.I built this because I was using AI agents for recurring browser tasks but couldn't justify the per-run cost and non-

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