LiteWebAgent: The Open-Source Suite for VLM-Based Web-Agent Applications
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Abstract (arXiv)
We introduce LiteWebAgent, an open-source suite for VLM-based web agent applications. Our framework addresses a critical gap in the web agent ecosystem with a production-ready solution that combines minimal serverless backend configuration, intuitive user and browser interfaces, and extensible research capabilities in agent planning, memory, and tree search. For the core LiteWebAgent agent framework, we implemented a simple yet effective baseline using recursive function calling, providing with decoupled action generation and action grounding. In addition, we integrate advanced research components such as agent planning, agent workflow memory, and tree search in a modular and extensible manner. We then integrate the LiteWebAgent agent framework with frontend and backend as deployed systems in two formats: (1) a production Vercel-based web application, which provides users with an agent-controlled remote browser, (2) a Chrome extension leveraging LiteWebAgent's API to control an existing Chrome browser via CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol). The LiteWebAgent framework is available at https://github.com/PathOnAI/LiteWebAgent, with deployed frontend at https://lite-web-agent.vercel.app/.
Key facts. Cited by 14 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Software engineering coding agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 10 of its 19 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 4 Mar 2025.
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- 2025Multi-scale Temporal Prediction via Incremental Generation and Multi-agent Collaborationcited by 0
- 2026Securing Computer-Use Agents: A Unified Architecture-Lifecycle Framework for Deployment-Grounded Reliabilitycited by 0
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- 2026LoginTrap: Uncovering Task-Agnostic Phishing-Style Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks against LLM-based Web Agents5 Aug 2026
- 2026MemVenom: Triggered Poisoning of Multimodal Memories in Web Agents9 Jun 2026
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- 2025Co-EPG: A Framework for Co-Evolution of Planning and Grounding in Autonomous GUI Agents13 Nov 2025
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