HyWe: Unifying Search and Operation for Real-World Hybrid Web Tasks

Real-world hybrid web tasks need both information gathering and page interaction, yet search-based and operation-based agents are developed and evaluated separately. To bridge this gap, we introduce HyWe, a framework that unifies both capabilities within one model and trajectory. Its two modes use dedicated prompts and tool sets to sustain sub-goal execution; explicit switching selects the needed capability, and shared history lets each mode build on the other's findings. To provide demonstrations of these behaviors, we develop HyWeCollector, a fully automatic pipeline that uses task prototypes, four switching patterns, and multi-agent synthesis to produce verified hybrid trajectories. We train HyWe-35B on these demonstrations to unify efficient information gathering and browser interaction in a single 35B web agent. To evaluate hybrid task completion, we introduce HyWeBench: $100$ human-written tasks on websites distinct from training, with human-written sub-goal checklists and an outcome-based evaluation pipeline. Hybrid training enables HyWe-35B to achieve $47.0\%$ success on this benchmark, improving on the untrained base model by $19.0$ percentage points and outperforming existing search-based and operation-based agents. Even before training, the same base model solves $28.0\%$ of tasks with HyWe, versus $11.0\%$ with all tools under one prompt. Beyond hybrid tasks, HyWe-35B achieves $59.0\%$ and $88.3\%$ success on Online-Mind2Web and WebVoyager, outperforming existing open-source baselines and cutting action cost per successful task by $48.3\%$ and $51.9\%$ compared with Fara-7B.