22.6Industry Convergence Points

Protocol: BiDi Won the Argument

2023: Puppeteer adds BiDi ───────────────────┐
2024: Selenium 4 low-level BiDi ─────────────┤
2025: Vibium launches BiDi-native ───────────┤── W3C WebDriver BiDi
2026: WebdriverIO v9 defaults to BiDi ───────┤   (the present tense)
20??: Selenium 5 high-level BiDi APIs ───────┘

Interface: Skills Became the Standard

2025: Agent Skills concept introduced ─────────┐
2025: Vibium's vibe-check skill (the pioneer) ─┤
2025-26: Skills Directory, cross-agent ────────┤── SKILL.md as de facto
2026: Playwright CLI ships --skills ───────────┤   agent interface
2026: Microsoft recommends CLI over MCP ───────┘

Intelligence: From Scripts to Reasoning

2004: Scripts ─────────────────────────────┐
2015: Page Objects ────────────────────────┤
2020: Self-healing (rule-based) ───────────┤── Testing intelligence
2025: Agent reasoning (LLM-based) ─────────┤   spectrum
2026: First-party test agents shipped ─────┤
2027+: Autonomous generation at scale ─────┘