Visual Agentic Dev
Hello HN, I built a tool to solve a specific annoyance: context switching between the browser (where I see the bug) and VS Code (where I fix it). It's called Visual Agentic Dev. The TL;DR: It lets you click any component in a running React app and instruct an AI agent (like Claude Code) to modify the source code directly. The "Magic" (How it works): Instead of requiring invasive Babel plugins to inject data-source attributes at build time, I used a runtime approach: The Chrome extension traverses the DOM to find the __reactFiber$ property. It walks up the Fiber tree to find the _debugSource…
Visual Agentic Dev launched on February 11, 2026 with 3 votes, #3,487 of 16,628 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.
What it does
an immersive browser development environment designed to allow developers to complete code modifications, debugging, and command-line interactions without leaving the browser. - brucetoo/visual-agentic-dev
an immersive browser dev environment with a seamless click-to-locate + agent edit loop. - brucetoo/visual-agentic-dev
Visual Agentic Dev is an immersive browser development environment designed to allow developers to complete code modifications, debugging, and command-line interactions without leaving the browser. Its core click-to-locate + agent edit loop is exactly the kind of workflow that makes AI agents feel genuinely useful—moving beyond a simple "chat in a box" to become a powerful, integrated part of the developmentfrom github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hello HN, I built a tool to solve a specific annoyance: context switching between the browser (where I see the bug) and VS Code (where I fix it). It's called Visual Agentic Dev. The TL;DR: It lets you click any component in a running React app and instruct an AI agent (like Claude Code) to modify the source code…
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