---
title: "Highlight: The Dark Arts of Web Automation"
category: "highlights"
targetType: "talk"
targetSlug: "2026-06-30-corey-gallon-the-dark-arts-of-web-automation-teaching-agents-to-use-websites-like-humans"
priority: "critical"
sourceLabels: ["Highlight registry", "Wiki navigation"]
---

# Highlight: The Dark Arts of Web Automation

## Target Page
- [[2026-06-30-corey-gallon-the-dark-arts-of-web-automation-teaching-agents-to-use-websites-like-humans|The Dark Arts of Web Automation: Teaching Agents to Use Websites Like Humans]]

## Why Highlighted
Favorite and critical talk: it turns browser agents from expensive step-by-step browsing into repeatable, scriptable CDP-based automation.

## Expansion Brief
Maintain extra recording-search status, related speaker/company/tool context, chrome-agent links, and a practical synthesis of browser automation patterns.

## Maintenance Checklist
- Search for exact recordings or source updates before assuming the current evidence is complete.
- Recheck room/track livestream coverage for 2026-06-30 Computer Use / Track 7; current channel evidence only shows broad WF2026 livestreams, not a Track 7 room stream.
- Prefer official schedule and roster facts for conference metadata.
- Add public company, profile, tool, transcript, and slide context when it directly improves the article.
- Keep the target page's backing markdown available under `/md/` after export.
- Preserve a clear evidence boundary when a recording or transcript is missing.

## Related Highlight Targets
- [[corey-gallon]]
- [[rexmore]]
- [[chrome-agent]]
- [[agentic-web]]
- [[ai-sandboxes]]

## Source File
- `wiki/talks/2026-06-30-corey-gallon-the-dark-arts-of-web-automation-teaching-agents-to-use-websites-like-humans.md`