Research

Papers

Canonical index for Unbrowse whitepapers, systems writing, and research artifacts.

Internal APIs Are All You Need

Shadow APIs, Shared Discovery, and the Case Against Browser-First Agent Architectures

πŸ”΅ Space β€” the wedge. The internal APIs already powering modern websites are the machine-native interface for autonomous agents; a shared route graph turns repeated browser rediscovery into collective memory. 3.6Γ— mean (5.4Γ— median) speedup across 94 live domains (Tham, Mac Gregor Garcia, Hahn β€” arXiv:2604.00694).

Sign Everything. No, Everything.PDF β†—

A Signed, Layer-Descending Stack: Identity, Authentication, and Zero-Knowledge Privacy across the Agent Stack

πŸ”΄ Reality β€” the signed chain defines what's real. One signing discipline holds at every layer an agent touches: screen, browser, CLI, OS, kernel, packet. A single Ed25519 wallet key signs every layer, credentials are bound to it by zero-knowledge proof and revealed only under signature, every result is content-addressed and sealed, and nothing crosses a layer unsigned. The cache–ledger core ships as runnable, tested code.

Run It or It Didn't HappenPDF β†—

Reproduced-Win Benchmarks for Small-Model Tool Routing

🟒 Time β€” it only counts if it re-runs. One unglamorous rule: a published number is admissible only if a command re-runs it green, with the losses printed in the same font as the wins. Applied to a 0.8B tool-routing agent: nine reproduced wins and five honest negatives. A benchmark you cannot lose is a benchmark you cannot trust.

You Are Your Keys (Sorry)PDF β†—

Wallet-as-Identity, Sealed Disclosure, and Capability-Grant Access for Agents

🟠 Soul β€” who you are, and who may see. Your wallet key is a first-class identity with no account database underneath it; every value is sealed to the key and revealed only under signature; read access is a signed, scoped, revocable capability grant. Authentication, disclosure, and authorization are three readings of one signed object β€” candid about what it does not close (revocation latency, key loss, metadata).

Wait, Who's Going to Maintain All This?PDF β†—

The Unbrowse Maintenance Network: Proof of Indexing and Bonded Accountability in a Shared Route Graph

🟣 Power β€” the staked coin that keeps the graph alive. Discovery is a one-time cost; freshness is a standing liability. A route's freshness becomes a verifiable artifact β€” a proof of indexing in the lineage of The Graph and Filecoin β€” secured by bonded, slashable maintenance. Usage settles in stable coin; the security token only ever bonds trust, never the bill. Honest about the open Sybil limit.

Stop Picking Routes by VibesPDF β†—

Fractal Cell Energy: A Biological Architecture for Route Selection over an Agent's Tool Library

🟑 Mind β€” selection is a number, not a vibe. Each route is a cell carrying a scalar energy it trains every time it fires (a reward-weighted running-mean prototype, O(1) per firing); selection is argmin energy, scale-free up the atomβ†’cellβ†’organ fractal. Wins on discrete structure (route ranking 4.6Γ— a keyword baseline) and, honestly, contributes +0.000 to free-form prose β€” the boundary is the contribution.