The "Agentic Era" has a hidden cost: The Serialization Tax.

The "Agentic Era" has a hidden cost: The Serialization Tax.

Most AI agents today are throttled by their own "eyes." When an agent uses standard Puppeteer or Playwright, it relies on a high-latency loop of screenshot -> base64 string -> VLM. This process doesn't just add 80ms+ of lag; it inflates every interaction by 30k–50k tokens just to transmit the image data.

Watch: Zero-Copy vs. Traditional CDP

Performance Comparison

Metric Traditional CDP Glazyr Viz
Vision Latency 86ms 7.3ms
Token Overhead High (Base64) Minimal (Pointer)
Data Used (Session) 73.86 MB 0.31 MB

Glazyr Viz moves the agent inside the Chromium rendering pipeline. By utilizing the Viz Subsystem and Zero-Copy DMA, we eliminate CPU-bound encoding. The result is a high-fidelity "Optic Nerve" that allows for sub-8ms perception—critical for dynamic, JS-heavy applications where traditional agents often "hallucinate" on stale data.

Try the Beta: Run npx @glazyr/mcp-core start to connect your agents to the Glazyr Vision Gateway.

We’re providing a 1,000,000 Vision Frame Pool for developers looking to stress-test their VLM pipelines.

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