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Let your agents draw arrows and boxes on your screen
A developer made a tool so coding agents can point at things on your screen with big arrows, boxes and text.
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- 419 HN points195 comments · fetched Oct 15, 2026
What they did
franze built a way for AI agents to paint overlays on your screen to show you things.
How it went
It got 419 points on HN.
Worth knowing
A tool launch rather than a usage report.
Builder recipe
Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.
Stack
- Overlay tool
- Your coding agent
Steps
- Open the repo in your coding agent and describe the goal and constraints.
- Ask for a plan first, then let it implement in small, reviewable steps.
- Run the tests or the app after each step and feed errors back.
- Review the diff before merging.
Starter prompt
Point at the setting I need to change with an arrow and a one-line label.Tags
Read the original
- Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018817 ↗ (opens in new tab) Oct 9, 2026 · 419 points, 195 comments (fetched 2026-10-15)
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