Opera Neon shares simple guide to let Cursor and Codex control the browser

Opera Neon has shared a simple video guide showing how two popular AI coding tools can now take direct control of its browser. The post on X walks through a quick setup that lets tools like Cursor and Codex open web pages, click buttons, fill forms, and run other browser tasks straight from a developer’s coding setup.

In case you stumbled across this post out of the blue, Cursor and Codex are popular AI coding tools that developers use to write and manage code faster. Developers who work with these tools often need to check websites, test features, or pull information from the web while they build. Instead of switching back and forth between the code editor and a browser window, the AI can now handle those steps on its own.

The guide focuses on a command line tool called Opera Browser CLI. It acts as a bridge so the AI coding agent can reach the browser without extra steps.

To set up Opera Browser CLI so tools like Cursor and Codex can control Opera Neon, first make sure Node.js version 20 or newer is installed on your computer and that you already have Opera Neon installed and logged in.

Open your terminal and run this single combined command: npm install -g opera-browser-cli && opera-browser-cli setup. The setup step will detect your Opera installation and finish the configuration automatically. After that, you can test everything by running opera-browser-cli open followed by any web address, such as https://www.operaneon.com/, and the browser should open the page directly from your coding environment or terminal.

For those who want to check the visual guide, you can watch it below:

The company explained that the tool connects the coding agent directly to Opera Neon so it can open pages, run commands, and interact with the web from the development environment.

This approach requires no extra browser extensions or separate sign-ins. It runs locally on the user’s machine. 

The commands stay simple once everything is connected. A developer can type or let the AI agent type something like a request to open a page, and the browser responds right away.

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