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7/24/2026
The original title is: "Cockroach Crawler: giving AI agents bounded web access without per-source API keys"

The original title is: "Cockroach Crawler: giving AI agents bounded web access without per-source API keys"

Original: I gave open claw and codex the whole internet without any api keys using this tool and it was never performed better

Short summary

Cockroach Crawler is an open-source Node.js and TypeScript toolkit that gives AI agents bounded web-research capabilities including crawling, JavaScript rendering, PDF processing, and structured data extraction. It connects to agents like OpenClaw and Codex via MCP while keeping operator control over origins, credentials, and resource limits. The design principle is to give agents useful web capabilities without letting them expand their own permissions.

  • •Open-source toolkit providing 50+ web capabilities to AI agents
  • •Operator retains authority over origins, credentials, and resource budgets
  • •Integrates with OpenClaw and Codex via MCP without per-source API keys

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#ai-tools#ai-agents#open-source
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