Giving AI Agents Eyes (Part 1): 6 Tricks for Reading Web Pages Without Vision Models

There's a growing class of AI agents that don't browse the web autonomously — they live inside web applications. Figma AI lives inside the design tool. Notion AI lives inside the document editor. GitHub Copilot lives inside the IDE. And increasingly, enterprise SaaS platforms are embedding AI assistants directly into their dashboards. These in-app agents face a problem that standalone chatbots don't: the user is staring at a complex UI — data tables, status badges, filters, modals — and expects...