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Safe and Scalable Web Agent Learning via Recreated Websites

Hyungjoo Chae, Jungsoo Park, Alan Ritter

Abstract

Training autonomous web agents is fundamentally limited by the environments they learn from: real-world websites are unsafe to explore, hard to reset, and rarely provide verifiable feedback. We propose VeriEnv, a framework that treats language models as environment creators, automatically cloning real-world websites into fully executable, verifiable synthetic environments. By exposing controlled internal access via a Python SDK, VeriEnv enables agents to self-generate tasks with deterministic, programmatically verifiable rewards, eliminating reliance on heuristic or LLM-based judges. This design decouples agent learning from unsafe real-world interaction while enabling scalable self-evolution through environment expansion. Through experiments on web agent benchmarks, we show that agents trained with VeriEnv generalize to unseen websites, achieve site-specific mastery through self-evolving training, and benefit from scaling the number of training environments.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings{
chae2026safe,
title={Safe and Scalable Web Agent Learning via Recreated Websites},
author={Hyungjoo Chae and Jungsoo Park and Alan Ritter},
booktitle={Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=x1OLusJLNe}
}