AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
MCP — The Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.
Why it matters
Stagehand stakes out the middle ground between brittle selector scripts and opaque full agents: deterministic primitives for the steps you know, an AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → call for the ones you don't, with accessibility-tree extraction to cut DOM noise.
