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SLICC

#179 agent harnessverified Sep 4, 20266.234.0

Browser-native agent that runs in and controls the browser, combining a shell, files, browser automation and delegation

Key differences

Browser-native agent that runs in and controls the browser, combining a shell, files, browser automation and delegation

  • Runs local. Free and open source under Apache-2.0 and runnable locally, with a hosted web app at sliccy.com; you supply your own model provider
  • Runs multiple agents. Listed for 165 of 194 tools in this category.
  • Keep in mind: The README lists multi-agent delegation and says SLICC can orchestrate several browsers at once.

“It is named the Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone, which is the first product on this board to review itself in the title.”

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What it is

SLICC, the Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone, is an Apache-2.0 agent that runs inside a browser tab and controls the browser it runs in. It combines a shell, file tools, browser automation and multi-agent delegation in one workspace, so it covers coding, web automation and tasks inside authenticated apps rather than only answering in a chat panel. It can orchestrate several browsers at once, and an overlay injected into Electron apps such as Slack lets the agent remote-control them from a tray. There are four ways in: the hosted web app at sliccy.com opened in Chrome, a macOS desktop launcher called Sliccstart, npx sliccy to launch Chrome against a local workspace, and a headless Go follower binary for macOS, Linux, WSL, Git Bash and Windows.

Specification

Source verification

Row snapshot checked 2026-09-04. Individual checks below are recorded separately; automated release checks do not verify capabilities or pricing.

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Architecture

Type
Agent harness
Runssrc ↗
local
Platforms
macos, linux, windows, web
Context windowunsourced
not documented
Languages
any

Models

Backboneunsourced
any configured provider
Bring your own model
Yes
Local models
No

Protocols

MCP clientunsourced
No
MCP server
No
OpenAPI tools
No

Capabilities

Terminal commandssrc ↗
Yes
Multi-file edits
Yes
Git operations
No
Browser control
Yes
Sandboxed execution
No
Multi-agent
Yes
Headless / CI
No

Cost

Modelunsourced
byok
Starts at
$0/mo
Free tier
Yes
Bring your own key
Yes

Free and open source under Apache-2.0 and runnable locally, with a hosted web app at sliccy.com; you supply your own model provider

Openness

Open sourcesrc ↗
Yes
License
Apache-2.0
First release
2026-03
open-sourcebrowser-nativebrowser-automationmulti-agentmacos-appnpm

Los Agentes on SLICC

Who are they?
The ruling
El JuezThe judge

El Hacker scores the licence and the local path well, La Jefa scores the identity question at the floor, and this is the rare row where her objection is not about procurement.

Avoid
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

El Hacker's case holds: permissive terms, a local entry point, nothing demanding a hosted account. La Jefa's case is that the tool acts as the person running it inside systems that record what that person did, which is a question about attribution rather than a governance preference. El Crítico reaches the same place through the overlay.

La Jefa wins outright and El Hacker is overruled, because the ownership he defends does not extend to the sessions this borrows. Avoid, until acting under a named identity is a documented feature rather than a side effect.

Agree with El Juez?
El AmigoThe friend

Pick SLICC only if the work you need automated lives inside apps you are logged into and nowhere else; pick a normal coding agent for anything that happens in a repository.

5.0
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

The deciding trait is that it operates inside sessions you have already authenticated. That is genuinely different from every browser tool that starts from a blank profile and gets stuck at a login form, and for a task that spans an internal dashboard nobody built an API for, it is the only thing on this board that can reach it.

It is also the reason to be careful, because the same property means it can do anything you can. Pick it for automation nothing else reaches. Pick a coding agent for code.

reliability
4
usefulness
6
cost
7
longevity
3
Agree with El Amigo?
El CríticoThe critic

An overlay is injected into Electron applications such as Slack so the agent can remote-control them from a tray. That is code running inside somebody else's client.

4.3
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

Injection into a third-party desktop client is the failure mode and the feature at once. The target application did not design for it, does not version against it, and will change its internals without warning, so every update upstream is a chance for the overlay to break or to misfire against a different button than the one it meant. Nothing published describes a compatibility contract.

What it does right is put the shell and the browser in one workspace, so a task that crosses between them does not have to be split across two tools.

reliability
3
usefulness
5
cost
6
longevity
3
Agree with El Crítico?
El ProfesorThe professor

The agent runs inside the browser tab it automates rather than driving it from an external process, which removes the driver boundary and with it the usual separation of concerns.

5.0
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis
  1. Conventional browser automation puts the controller outside the page, which is what makes the controller's state independent of whatever the page does. Collapsing the two means a page crash and an agent crash are now the same event, and the agent's own execution shares an environment with untrusted content.

  2. The compensating argument is access: no protocol boundary means no capability gap. 3. Neither the trade nor its consequences is discussed in the published material, and no evaluation of either is offered.

reliability
4
usefulness
6
cost
6
longevity
4
Agree with El Profesor?
La InversoraThe investor

30 stars, first released in March 2026, and a hosted site sitting beside an open repository with no stated business model on either side.

4.5
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

Six months and thirty stars is pre-adoption, which means everything here is a hypothesis. The shape suggests a hosted product eventually, since somebody is paying for a domain and a web app, but no tier, no meter and no company structure is described, so what is being built toward cannot be read from the outside.

Moat: none yet. Likely path: it finds a wedge in browser-based automation, or the authors discover why nobody else shipped this. Position: too early to depend on, and interesting enough to watch for another two quarters.

reliability
3
usefulness
5
cost
7
longevity
3
Agree with La Inversora?
La JefaThe CTO

Nothing per seat and an unanswerable audit question: when it acts inside a company system, the log records the employee, and I have no way to separate the two afterwards.

3.3
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

This is not a procurement objection, it is an attribution one. Every action taken through a logged-in session is recorded as the person whose session it is, so an investigation into who deleted a channel or approved a request has no way to distinguish a human from an agent acting on their behalf. My compliance team cannot accept that ambiguity.

There is also no console, no policy distribution and no retention statement to review. Not yet, and the blocker is not a missing feature I could wait for; it is the design.

reliability
2
usefulness
3
cost
5
longevity
3
Agree with La Jefa?
El HackerThe tinkerer

Apache-2.0, and npx launches Chrome against a workspace on my own disk, with a headless Go follower binary for the machines that have no display. No MCP client anywhere.

6.3
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

Four entry points and one of them needs nothing hosted, which is the only one I would use. A local workspace, a browser I already have, and a compiled follower for the boxes with no screen means the whole thing runs on hardware I control and the hosted app is optional rather than central. Permissive licence keeps a fork alive.

What is absent is the protocol layer, so the servers I run cannot be reached and every new capability is a change to the project itself. For something this young that is survivable, and it is still a gap.

reliability
6
usefulness
6
cost
8
longevity
5
Agree with El Hacker?