Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build

I use AI agents to build UI features daily. The thing that kept annoying me: the agent writes code but never sees what it actually looks like in the browser. It can’t tell if the layout is broken or if the console is throwing errors.

So I built a CLI that lets the agent open a browser, interact with the page, record what happens, and collect any errors. Then it bundles everything — video, screenshots, logs — into a self-contained HTML file I can review in seconds.

proofshot start --run "npm run dev" --port 3000
# agent navigates, clicks, takes screenshots
proofshot stop

It works with whatever agent you use (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) — it’s just shell commands. It's packaged as a skill so your AI coding agent knows exactly how it works. It's built on agent-browser from Vercel Labs which is far better and faster than Playwright MCP.

It’s not a testing framework. The agent doesn’t decide pass/fail. It just gives me the evidence so I don’t have to open the browser myself every time.

Open source and completely free.

https://github.com/AmElmo/proofshot

https://proofshot.argil.io/

What does this do that playwright-cli doesn't?

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli

GitHub - microsoft/playwright-cli: CLI for common Playwright actions. Record and generate Playwright code, inspect selectors and take screenshots.

CLI for common Playwright actions. Record and generate Playwright code, inspect selectors and take screenshots. - microsoft/playwright-cli

GitHub
These aren't really comparable, OP's is something that records, captures and reproduces with steps.