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What we ship, how it performs,
and practical ways to put rtrvr to work.


Proof
OpenAI dots vs rtrvr.ai: Speed, Cost and Accuracy
rtrvr ran five tasks about 5× faster than OpenAI dots. See the results, invoice recovery and browser-agent harness, then try the tests yourself.
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Research
How OpenAI Agents Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat a Test
How OpenAI agents coordinated to cheat a cybersecurity test, hacked Hugging Face, and used a screenshot service to run code. Evidence and browser-agent defenses.
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Proof
Muse for everyday life. Retriever AI for work.
Muse missed earlier instructions and called visible Instagram likes hidden. Why context management and on-device browser access matter for creator research.
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Research
How Jev Chooses the Next Browser Action
We added Jev to rtrvr’s browser agent to choose from the actions available on a page. Our LinkedIn and Amazon runs finished sooner, but scoring large pages raised the cost.
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Research
Stop Paying AI to Plan the Same Task Twice
In a new paper, a 9B model with tested skills beat a 27B model without them. Browser agents now need a way to find the right skill, test it, and remove it when it stops working.
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Research
Financial Markets and Model Routers
Stock markets aggregate information for price discovery. Blockchains distribute execution and settlement. Model routing can combine both architectures: centralized data for selection, local provider estimates, and independent verification of task completion before updating the next route.
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Research
How We Built a Free Browser Agent, Paid for by Ads
How rtrvr cut a browser-agent task to about half a cent using semantic page trees, code plans, and prompt caching, then made the agent free with sponsored cards.
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Research
How prefix caching cut our browser-agent token bill by 90%
The cache boundary, measurements, and implementation choices that made long browser runs materially cheaper.
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Product
The self-improving action layer we are building
A concrete roadmap for turning successful browser work into reusable actions without losing review and control.
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