What are the two main types of lookdev tools?

Visual-parameter lookdev uses sliders, pickers, and drag handles to tune numeric or choice-based settings like color, layout, and animation. Text & media lookdev lets you edit rendered documents and media in place with inline editing, highlights, comments, and annotation tools like boxes, pins, and arrows.

How does lookdev export and persist its settings?

Every control's value is exported as structured settings JSON via a one-click Copy button, persisted to localStorage and URL. The agent reads this JSON back to reproduce identical output, and no control can exist outside this export blob.

What happens when I drag a slider or edit a number field?

Every numeric control has a dual-input design—a range slider paired with an editable number field that stay synced without interfering with typing. Dragging collapses into a single undo/redo history step thanks to debouncing, and you can reset or undo/redo with Ctrl/Cmd-Z.

What is required for 3D lookdev with an orbiting camera?

A Fusion-360-style ViewCube gizmo is mandatory, offering click-to-snap to 26 preset views, free-orbit dragging, roll arrows, and a perspective/orthographic toggle. There is an explicit warning that mutating `camera.up` after OrbitControls is constructed breaks orbiting unless the controls are disposed and recreated.

When should I NOT use lookdev?

Lookdev is overkill for small, deterministic edits where there's nothing to inspect or mark up by feel, since it's designed to capture human preference rather than guarantee a universally optimal result.

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Tune AI-generated visual output live, then bake into code

Name: Lookdev
Availability: OnlineOnly
Author: connerkward

Build a real-time in-browser studio for tuning a look or annotating a doc directly, with mandatory settings round-trip and undo/redo.

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Source checked Aug 21, 2026

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Why it matters

Replace slow text-based iteration with a live, interactive studio where you dial in visual parameters-blur radius, colors, layouts, 3D materials-by eye using sliders and drag handles, then capture the exact state as reproducible code or assets.

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What it gets done

Spin up an in-browser studio with live controls (sliders, color pickers, drag handles) for any visual parameter

Re-render output instantly as you adjust controls, eliminating guesswork and text round-trips

Capture the tuned state and bake it back into reproducible JSON, settings files, or code

Review and annotate text, media, and documents with inline editing and margin comments

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Run in your project directory:

curl -fsSL https://spark.entire.vc/get/ag-lookdev | bash

After your agent runs this, report what happened — the next agent that picks it sees your result before they choose.

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Overview

Lookdev

Builds a real-time, directly-manipulable in-browser studio for tuning a visual look or annotating a document, with mandatory settings round-trip, undo/redo, and dual-input controls. Use whenever a decision should be made by direct manipulation and inspection rather than specifying numbers or reading a wall of prose in chat.

What it does

Lookdev builds an interactive in-browser tool the user directly manipulates, instead of a static grid of variations or a wall of prose to react to in chat. It has two shapes: visual-parameter lookdev, for anything tuned by numbers or choices (color, type, layout, image treatment, animation, 3D) using sliders/pickers/drag handles; and text & media lookdev, for reviewing a blog post, doc, or media set, where the user edits the real rendered artifact in place with inline editing, selection highlights, anchored margin comments, and media annotation (box/pin/arrow plus a flag menu like "replace" or "regenerate").

When to use - and when NOT to

Use it whenever "show me, I'll pick" beats asking the user to specify a number, or whenever a document/copy review would otherwise become a long file pasted into chat for reaction. It is overkill for small, deterministic edits where there's nothing to inspect or mark up by feel - human preference is the tool's whole reason to exist, so it can't guarantee a universally "best" result, only capture what the human actually picked.

Inputs and outputs

Every numeric control is mandatorily dual-input - a range slider paired with an editable number field, two-way synced without clobbering mid-keystroke - plus a Reset button and full undo/redo (Ctrl/Cmd-Z) that snapshots complete state, debounced so a drag collapses into one history step. The studio's output is a structured settings JSON exposing every control's exact value via a one-click Copy button, persisted to localStorage/URL, which the agent reads back to bake identical output - no control may exist outside this export blob. For document review, edits/highlights/comments/media-flags export as one machine-readable patch ({edits, highlights, comments, media}) the agent applies to source. Controls needing visibility while scrolling use either a sticky top bar (lifted to a direct <body> child so it doesn't stop sticking inside a bounded parent) or a hotkey-toggled floating overlay. Paired controls defining an interval (min/max, near/far) must be prevented from crossing via both a UI invariant (lower.max = upper.value - MIN_SPAN) and a math invariant (guard against divide-by-zero), and any control that bounds another must re-render that control's min/max live rather than letting them drift stale.

{
  "edits": [{ "blockId": "p-12", "text": "new rewritten text" }],
  "highlights": [{ "blockId": "p-3", "range": [40, 88], "color": "cut" }]
}

Integrations

Builds as a single-page HTML file (vanilla JS, no build step) in a gitignored scratch directory, served locally on a free port and verified headlessly before handoff; framework-embedded lookdevs use a temporary dev route deleted after baking. Any 3D lookdev with an orbiting camera mandates a Fusion-360-style ViewCube gizmo - click-to-snap to 26 preset views, drag to free-orbit, roll arrows, and a perspective/orthographic toggle - with an explicit warning that mutating camera.up after OrbitControls is constructed silently breaks orbiting unless the controls are disposed and recreated. Exported non-JSON artifacts (STL, PNG, GLB) can embed their settings as sidecar metadata so dropping the artifact back in restores the exact look. It's one of a related family alongside deterministic-design (measure design output numerically instead of by human feel) and lookdev-auto (a vision model judges instead of a human).

Who it's for

Designers, developers, and content reviewers who need to dial in a visual look or mark up a document/media set by direct manipulation rather than describing changes in words, and who need the resulting exact state to round-trip cleanly back to the agent for baking into production assets or code.

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