Your AI agent can't fetch behind logins. I built a <400kb fix in Zig.

Claude Code has WebFetch. Every AI coding agent has some way to grab a webpage. They all hit the same wall: auth. Try fetching a Medium article. A Facebook post. A private Substack. Anything behind Cloudflare. The agent gets a login page, a CAPTCHA, or nothing — and makes up the rest. ## What playpanda does ```bash playpanda https://medium.com/@someone/private-post ``` You log in once. Cookies get saved. After that, fetching just works — from an agent, a script, or the terminal. The output is markdown with the junk stripped out. No nav bars, no cookie banners, no ads, no image CDN URLs. Just the content. ## How agents can use it Anything that can shell out can use it: ```bash # Replace WebFetch in Claude Code playpanda https://docs.example.com/private-api # Fetch multiple pages at once playpanda https://url1.com,https://url2.com,https://url3.com ``` ## How fetching works It tries the fastest method first and escalates when something gets in the way: | Method | Speed | When it kicks in | |---|---|---| | HTTP fetch | ~200ms | Default, works for most pages | | JS rendering | ~1.5s | Page needs JavaScript to load | | Real browser + anti-detection | ~6s | Site actively blocks bots | The agent doesn't need to know which tier ran. It just gets markdown back. ## Size Single Zig binary, under 400kb. ## Install One-liner: ```bash curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ancs21/playpanda/main/scripts/install.sh | sh ``` As an agent skill: ```bash npx skills add ancs21/playpanda ``` From source (requires Zig 0.15+): ```bash git clone https://github.com/ancs21/playpanda.git cd playpanda zig build -Doptimize=.ReleaseFast cp zig-out/bin/playpanda ~/.local/bin/ ``` GitHub: https://github.com/ancs21/playpanda (Apache 2.0 license)