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arxiv:2611.03634

WebHarbor: Docking Real Websites for Evolving GUI Agent Environments

Published on Nov 2
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Zhaoyang Wang
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Abstract

WebHarbor provides 153 executable, dockerized web environments for stable evaluation and reinforcement learning training of GUI agents, enabling strong generalization across multi-step and post-authentication tasks.

GUI web agents require realistic and interactive environments that remain stable during both evaluation and training. Live website evaluation suffers from changing content, access restrictions, and limited coverage of authenticated workflows, while existing synthetic environments for training often lack functional depth and visual fidelity. We propose WebHarbor, a suite of 153 executable and dockerized website environments that faithfully reconstruct the visual interfaces, content, and functional workflows of real-world web services under deterministic control. We build WebHarbor through task-driven human-agent collaboration, where environments evolve as new tasks expand their functional scope, coding agents implement the required changes, and human contributors audit visual fidelity, functional correctness, and task validity. The resulting suite comprises 3,518 tasks spanning multi-step and post-authentication workflows, where existing works often fail to cover. Beyond reliable evaluation, WebHarbor provides high-fidelity synthetic web environments for cost-efficient reinforcement learning (RL). We demonstrate that a Qwen 4B-level GUI agent trained with RL in WebHarbor generalizes to unseen tasks and performs competitively with leading open-source GUI web agents across four benchmarks. The code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/aiming-lab/WebHarbor.

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We introduce WebHarbor, a suite of 153 executable, dockerized website environments that reconstruct the visual interfaces, content, and workflows of real-world web services, plus 3,518 tasks for evaluating and training GUI web agents.

Why: live-web evaluation is unstable. In our runs, about 38% of Online-Mind2Web tasks were blocked by bot detection, and 22% of WebVoyager tasks were outdated.

Core contributions:

  1. Environments: task-driven human-agent collaboration. Coding agents implement each site, and human reviewers audit visual fidelity, functional correctness, and task validity. 57 contributors from 26 affiliations built the suite in five months. Each environment averages 37.3 pages and 1,319.9 images, the most of any compared suite.
  2. Tasks: multi-step and post-authentication workflows (accounts, bookings, transactions) that live-web benchmarks largely lack, graded by verifiers that check the final answer and the state changes, with fast resets for RL.
  3. Results: trained with RL only in WebHarbor, WebHarbor-4B reaches a 75.8 average on WebVoyager and Online-Mind2Web, 5.2 points above the live-web-trained OpenWebRL-4B and 22.2 above the shared SFT checkpoint. All 15 WebVoyager websites are excluded from training.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03634
Project page: https://aiming-lab.github.io/WebHarbor/
Code: https://github.com/aiming-lab/WebHarbor
Environments: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ChilleD/WebHarbor
Tasks (Harbor format): https://huggingface.co/datasets/ChilleD/WebHarbor-Tasks
Model: https://huggingface.co/ChilleD/WebHarbor-4B
Docker images: https://hub.docker.com/r/wildawm/webharbor

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