The Browser Type Tool
Enter text into an input or textarea identified from the snapshot so an agent can fill forms, search boxes, and editors as part of a real web workflow.
Half the work lives behind a browser
Critical data and actions sit on web pages and third-party systems with no clean API. Without the ability to navigate, click, extract, and call endpoints, an agent is cut off from a huge share of the real work — and doing it by hand doesn’t scale.
No API, no access
Many systems only expose a web UI an agent can’t reach.
Manual gathering
People copy-paste from pages and PDFs because nothing else can.
Brittle scripts
Hand-written scrapers break the moment a page changes.
Ungoverned egress
Uncontrolled outbound web calls are a security and compliance risk.
Browser Type, without the risk
Capability
What it does
Type into a field on the live page.
it types text into an input or textarea on the current page.
Assignable to any agent
How it works
Predictable, inspectable behavior
Designed to be reliable.
it targets fields from the structured snapshot and logs the action, so form-filling is reliable and auditable — with sensitive values handled through your secret store, not hard-coded.
Every call logged
Governance
Private, governed, on-premise
Runs inside your perimeter.
Browsing and web calls run through a governed, on-premise gateway with allow-listing and full request logging, so agents reach only the sites and endpoints you permit — and every action is auditable.
Per-tenant, logged
Parameters
The browser_type tool accepts these inputs when an agent calls it. Required inputs are flagged.
default: false Optional Press Enter after typing.
How the Browser Type tool works in practice
Browser Type is a browser & web action tool you assign to a VDF AI agent. It types text into an input or textarea on the current page. Its hallmarks — Type, Fill, Targeted — let an agent rely on it as a dependable step in a larger task rather than a brittle one-off script.
Under the hood, it targets fields from the structured snapshot and logs the action, so form-filling is reliable and auditable — with sensitive values handled through your secret store, not hard-coded. It expects selector and text as required inputs, so calls are explicit and easy to audit. Every call is scoped to the requesting tenant and written to an audit log, so the capability is safe to run inside a regulated, on-premise environment — the same governance model behind every VDF AI tool.
Teams reach for Browser Type when they need to handle form entry, search, and editors. It rarely works alone — pair it with Browser Snapshot, Browser Click, and Browser Navigate to build a complete, governed workflow, then compose those steps into an on-premise VDF AI Network.
Where Browser Type pays back
Form entry
Fill fields across a web form.
Search
Type a query into a site’s search box.
Editors
Enter content into a web editor.
Workflows
Combine with click to complete real flows.
Assigned to agents, orchestrated as networks
On VDF AI, an industry’s use cases map to agents, and you assign tools like this one to those agents. Compose multiple agents into a governed, on-premise network.
What changes after you assign it
Questions about the Browser Type tool
What is the Browser Type tool?
It types text into an input or textarea on the current page. Assigned to a VDF AI agent, it runs under role-based policy with full audit logging so the capability is safe to use in production.
How are passwords handled?
Sensitive values come from your secret store at run time rather than being embedded, and they are redacted from logs.
Can it submit the form?
Yes. Set submit to true to press Enter after typing.
What inputs does the Browser Type tool need?
It requires selector and text, and optionally accepts submit. Each parameter is validated when an agent calls the tool, and the full call is logged for audit.
Which tools pair well with Browser Type?
Browser Type is commonly assigned alongside Browser Snapshot, Browser Click, and Browser Navigate. On VDF AI you compose several tools and agents into a single governed, on-premise network.
Does it run on-premise?
Yes. Like every VDF AI tool, it can run on-premise or in your sovereign cloud, scoped per user and audit-logged, so your data never leaves your perimeter.
How do agents use it?
You assign the tool to an agent under a role-based policy; the agent calls it as one step in a task, and several agents and tools can be orchestrated together as a governed VDF AI Network.
Tools that work well alongside this one
Where this tool delivers value
Put Browser Type to work
See the Browser Type tool assigned to an agent and orchestrated in a governed, on-premise network.