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Translate What You See To What Your Agent Needs.

Hover on any UI element in your browser, Alt + C, Ctrl + V, and see your AI skip the digging session.

$ npm install -g hoversource
Created by @loerei
VISUAL INSPECTOR

Interactive UI Sandbox

Ditch the manual search. See the internal file structure and component metadata of any UI element instantly. Your AI agent will thank you.

Hover, Copy, Done!

Inspector Mode is live. Just hover over any component in this mock feed, then hit C. You'll get a perfectly formatted, AI-ready metadata block in your clipboard—no manual file-hunting required.

IG
S3
S4
loerei
•••
photographer
•••
coder
•••
AGENT RUNTIME

Watch your agent stop wandering.

Stop letting your AI agent waste time grepping through thousands of files. HoverSource feeds the agent the exact file path and line number, so it can start coding immediately. Press 'Send' to see the difference.

HoverSource feeds your AI agent the exact file path and line number, bypassing the tedious 'grep-and-search' phase. It slashes agent steps by 73.9% and reduces token consumption by 94.5%, turning minutes of exploration into seconds of execution.
gemini-3.5-flash@hoversource-agent: ~
Steps: 0
Tokens: 0
Time Elapsed: 0s
HoverSource CLI Agent v1.0.0
Agent ready to receive instructions.
Click Send to Agent to process the task.

Engineered for AI Autonomy

HoverSource abstracts the visual layer, translating pixels directly into surgical file-line-column mappings.

INTEGRATION

Framework Support Matrix

Works out-of-the-box with Next.js, React, Vue, Svelte, Vite, and Webpack. Zero config required to inspect browser nodes.

React Next.js Vue Svelte Vite Webpack
SHORTCUT

Copy Component Metadata

Instantly copy formatted JSX element source information to your system clipboard using a single key combination.

Alt + C
PIPELINE

Compiler-to-DOM Map

Bridges compiled browser code back to project source code. Mappings are precise to the file, line, and column.

DOM Node ➔ [KbarTrigger]
Parser ➔ apps/web/modules/shell/Kbar.tsx
AST Target ➔ Line: 371, Col: 7

Quick Start

Install HoverSource globally and start debugging your application in seconds. Zero complex onboarding or configuration required.

01 / INSTALL

Install CLI globally via npm

npm install -g hoversource
02 / RUN

Start HoverSource in project root

hs start
or hs
PERFORMANCE

Benchmarks

Toggle the repository size and slide the controller to compare AI agent metrics across all 15 real-world benchmark sets.

Benchmarked using chronicle-mcp via js-tiktoken.

Group C: HoverSource
STEPS
17.1
CUMULATIVE INPUT
35,733
PEAK CONTEXT
6,486
AVG TIME
16.4s
Token Consumption 5.4%
Peak Context 6,486
Execution Time 16.4s