Buddy Visual Tests
Every UI change, reviewed before merge
Buddy Visual Tests launched on August 25, 2026 with 88 votes, #464 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Not only can AI agents build your UI, they can now test what it actually looks like. Buddy Visual Tests captures every UI change, compares it pixel by pixel with an approved baseline, and brings visual regression testing straight into your delivery flow. With CLI, MCP and Skills support, agents can spot visual bugs, fix them, rerun tests, and hand over intentional changes for human approval.
Visual Tests capture snapshots of your rendered UI and compare them against approved baselines - so layout shifts, style drift, and missing elements get caught before they merge. Runs inside Buddy CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or locally. In Preview.
Agents change UI faster than anyone can open a browser. Buddy renders every change, diffs it against an approved baseline, and hands you, or your agent, the exact pixels that moved. Human or agent written, every change passes the same checkpoint before it lands. Buddy compares what the browser actually painted, not the code behind it. You get baseline and current displayed side by side, every difference outlined. Chrome, Firefox and Safari, light or dark, from HD desktop to iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy. Each variant resolves its own baseline, so a mobile-only regression can't hide behind a clean desktop. Set the diff threshold, or hand Buddy the CSS and XPath selectors for the parts that never…from buddy.works
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