Terminal browsers have always been the calm way to read the web, but have been quietly broken for twenty years: lynx and w3m parse HTML, while most sites are unreadable without a full JavaScript engine.
mdb launches a real Chromium browser behind your terminal window, so the page loads with JavaScript, cookies and everything else. From that browser it extracts the structure and essence of the page and emits clean, hierarchically correct markdown.
Humans get a non-noisy way to browse the web in simple markdown; LLMs get a token-efficient way to browse it. It includes an archive store, change-watching sensors, an MCP server for agents, and speech output.