>My workflow involves manual copying and pasting from the browser into my own text editor.

Cline with mcp-playwright: https://github.com/executeautomation/mcp-playwright

There is no free tier like other tools, but it's far more transparent in that regard; it uses an Anthropic/OpenAI/etc. API key directly, and your only costs are direct token usage.

The real "aha" moment with this kind of thing is in realizing that the agent can not just use the tool as provided, but it can write scripts to dynamically execute on the page as well. So it's not just going to a page and dumping a bunch of HTML back into the client; it actually analyzes the DOM structure and writes JS snippets to extract relevant information which are then executed in the browser's runtime.

Amazon Q CLI, Claude Code CLI, Goose with any model, OpenAPI released Codex CLI recently, and Google released Jules.

You can also just use Claude Desktop and hook it up to MCP servers.