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Why we included this project

Lightpanda is a headless browser written from scratch in Zig, not another Chromium fork. For teams whose AI agents need to load and act on live web pages, the resource footprint is the big draw: in the project's own benchmarks it used about 123MB of memory where headless Chrome used 2GB, and finished a 100-page crawl roughly nine times faster. It speaks the Chrome DevTools Protocol, so the same Puppeteer or Playwright code you already run can drive it, which makes slotting it into an existing automation stack fairly painless. It won't render every site perfectly, so it's worth checking your specific pages first, but for high-volume crawling and agent workloads the savings are substantial.