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Browser Tour

Research beside your work, not instead of it. A Browser tab is a real web browser that lives inside Circuitry — open documentation next to your canvas, keep a reference article one tab away from the workflow it informs, compare a live site against the page you're building. The web page and the thing you're making sit in the same studio, so you stop alt-tabbing between an idea and its source.

That matters because the rest of Circuitry is right there. Read an API's docs in a Browser tab, then hand the task to the coding agent in the next tab — no screenshots, no copy-paste relay between separate apps.

A browser tab

A tour of the controls

Everything lives in a single navigation bar at the top of the tab:

  • Go back — steps back through this tab's history; dimmed when there's nowhere to go back to.
  • Go forward — steps forward again; dimmed when there's no forward history.
  • Reload — reloads the current page; the icon spins while the page loads.
  • Home — returns to the home page.
  • Address bar — type a URL or anything else and press ⏎: web addresses navigate directly (https is added for you), and anything that isn't an address runs as a web search.
  • Cancel — appears while you're editing the address; reverts the bar to the page you're actually on.

While a page loads, a small Loading… indicator appears in the top-right corner of the viewport.

Your coding agent can use it too

Ask the agent to check the site you just built and it opens the page, clicks through the part you changed, reads the browser's console when something breaks, and tells you what it found — rather than reading your code and guessing.

You can watch it: its pointer moves to each thing before it clicks, and a bar across the page names the step with a Stop button. It uses tabs you already have open rather than opening its own, and asks which one you mean if several are open. On a phone the Docs button wears a pulsing blue dot while it's working, since the page usually isn't on screen.

Full-fidelity browsing in the desktop app

Some sites decline to render inside an embedded web view — that's a restriction those sites place on being framed, and you'll see it occasionally when browsing in the web version of Circuitry. In the Circuitry desktop app the Browser tab is a full native web view, so every site loads exactly as it would in a standalone browser.

This also decides how much the agent can do: it drives pages fully in the desktop app, and can read and drive pages you browse through your own computer in the web version. A page opened without your Circuit connected can be viewed but not driven — the agent will tell you so.

Works with the rest of the studio