Does the browser stay open after a task, and what does it use?

Yes. When the assistant finishes a job in the browser, the browser does not close. It stays open on the page it reached, and it stays yours until you close it or it puts itself to sleep.

What you see when a task finishes

The status chip in the panel header changes to Yours, and the card in the conversation reads Done — browser still open. The page is still there, still signed in, exactly where the assistant stopped.

Why it is left open

• You can carry on from there yourself. Click anywhere on the view to take the controls and finish something by hand.
• The next thing you ask happens in the same browser. Same tabs, same history, same sign-ins — a follow-up carries on rather than opening another browser alongside it.
• You can check its work. The page it ended on is right there to look at.

It is your browser, not the task's

The browser belongs to your account rather than to one conversation, so starting a new chat does not start a new browser. Ask for something on the web and it carries on in the same one.

One browser task runs at a time. While one is going, the chat holds your next message: the composer reads Working in the browser…, and trying to send shows "Still working in the browser — one moment." The assistant comes back with the outcome as a new message when it is done, and the next thing you ask carries straight on in the same browser.

It goes to sleep on its own

After a stretch with nobody touching it, the browser puts itself to sleep. The panel shows a moon and "Your computer is asleep.", with a line telling you where it will wake up.

Asleep is not closed. Your sign-ins, your cookies and your site preferences — down to a cookie banner you already dismissed — are kept, along with the page it was on.

It only stays awake while you are actually using it; having the panel open is not enough on its own. The one exception is a browser you deliberately took control of, which is not slept out from under you while you are working in it.

Waking it up

Usually you do nothing at all. Ask the assistant for the next thing and it wakes the browser itself — it wakes up where you left it, still signed in, with nothing for you to do first.

You can also press Wake it up in the panel, and you will see "Woke your computer up where you left it."

How to close it yourself

Press Stop in the panel header. That ends the run and closes the browser. The chip reads Stopped, and it is recorded as you having stopped it, not as a failure.

Take control and Stop only appear while a browser is actually open, so if you cannot see them, there is nothing running to stop. Pressing Stop on a browser that is already asleep does nothing harmful — it stays wakeable.

Closing the panel with the X is not the same thing. That hides the view, and the browser carries on. Only Stop closes it.

What it uses while it is open

A browser task uses credits while it works, and it arrives as one charge for that browser session — not a charge per click, and nothing stacked on top per action.

• The meter runs the whole time the browser is open, not only while the assistant is working. That includes the stretch after a task is done while it waits for you, and any time you are driving it by hand.
• It stops when the browser actually closes — you press Stop, or it goes to sleep.
• Asleep costs nothing, and nothing is lost.
• Waking is not free. Waking opens a fresh browser, which starts the meter again.

It appears on your usage breakdown as its own line, Computer use.

Tip: If you know you are finished, press Stop rather than leaving the browser sitting there. If you forget, it will put itself to sleep anyway.