Pointa

Pointa is an open source Chrome extension designed for developers to visually annotate user interfaces on localhost environments and leverage AI to fix issues directly in their codebase. It enables rapid feedback and bug reporting by allowing users to click on any UI element, create detailed annotations with captured structure, styling, and context, and attach screenshots. These annotations remain anchored to the relevant elements and are processed locally for privacy.

The tool integrates with AI coding assistants through the MCP protocol, supporting assistants such as Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, and others compatible with MCP. Developers can annotate, report bugs, and then have their AI assistant analyze the full timeline of events—including user interactions, network requests, console logs, and errors—to suggest root causes and implement fixes. Pointa supports bulk processing, allowing up to 200 annotations to be handled in a single AI session, and provides a real-time design mode for editing text, colors, layouts, and styles visually on localhost, with changes applied directly to the codebase by the AI assistant.

Pointa is built with privacy in mind: all data processing, feedback, and annotation storage occur locally, with no cloud uploads, external tracking, or data collection. 1), ensuring that annotations and bug reports do not affect production environments. For non-localhost pages, it offers the ability to capture inspiration by saving screenshots and CSS metadata from UI elements for later reference.

Installation involves adding the Chrome extension, running a local Pointa server, and connecting an AI tool via MCP. The platform is completely free for individual developers and is open source, allowing users to inspect the code and verify how their data is handled. Pointa is positioned as a browser-based development extension focused on streamlining UI feedback, bug reporting, and AI-powered code implementation for modern development workflows.