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hongnoul/hwatu

Headless verification browser for AI coding agents: 35 ms one-call checks, pixel diffs, live human hand-off

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How fast hongnoul/hwatu is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Aug 23 – Oct 22, 2026

Stars +40 in 61 days

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Forks +9 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 9 in 61 days

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Total+40+99
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Recent discussions about this repository across the web
  1. Sep 261 post

    • Your coding agent can click through a UI. That doesn’t prove the UI works. hwatu is a headless UI verification harness for coding agents that need measurable checks instead of visual guesswork. It…

      Read full on X, posted by @DanKornas

      @DanKornas · x.com

  2. 2 months earlier
  3. Jul 291 post

    • Show HN: A verification browser for AI agents – 13ms windows, one-call checks

      Read full on Reddit

      r/hypeurls

  4. Jul 271 post

    • Peter Steinberger asked for a browser-agnostic devtool. Boris Cherny called UI verification a weak spot. I hit the same wall building TrustAI: agents could write the UI, but they couldn’t reliably…

      Read full on X, posted by @hongnoul

      @hongnoul · x.com

  5. Jul 252 posts

    • hwatu: a verification browser for local coding agents. Headless WebKit, DOM eval, pixel-diff with real match %, no Chromium (MIT, Rust)

      Read full on Reddit

      r/LocalLLaMA

    • Show HN: Hwatu – verification browser for coding agents (WebKit, one binary)

      Read full on Hacker News

      Hacker News

  6. Jul 223 posts

    • hwatu: a daemon-based WebKit browser that opens windows in ~13ms (built for tiling WMs)

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      r/swaywm

    • hwatu: a daemon-based WebKit browser that opens windows in ~13ms (built for tiling WMs)

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      r/hyprland

    • Hwatu: A daemon-based WebKit browser with 13ms window spawns

      Read full on Hacker News

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