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ui-grab

v0.1.35

Published

Open-source UI context picker for coding agents with built-in Shift multi-select

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Keywords

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Readme

ui-grab

UI context picker for coding agents with built-in Shift + click multi-select.

ui-grab keeps the prompt UI and comment history flow, adds built-in Shift + click multi-select, and ships a separate MCP bridge so browser context picking can stay lightweight by default.

Packages

  • ui-grab: runtime, CLI, and public exports for ui-grab/core, ui-grab/primitives, and ui-grab/styles.css
  • ui-grab-mcp: optional MCP bridge for editor and agent integrations

Install

Recommended: guided setup

npx ui-grab@latest init

ui-grab init configures your project and installs ui-grab automatically unless you pass --skip-install.

Manual package install

pnpm add -D ui-grab

# npm
npm install -D ui-grab

Optional: local MCP bridge install

pnpm add -D ui-grab-mcp
npm install -D ui-grab-mcp

Use the published package names with hyphens: ui-grab and ui-grab-mcp.

If you already installed ui-grab manually with npm install -D ui-grab, npx ui-grab@latest init will still configure your project.

Quick Start

  1. Run npx ui-grab@latest init inside your project.
  2. Start your app in development mode.
  3. Hold Cmd+C on macOS or Ctrl+C on Windows/Linux briefly to activate UI Grab, unless you configured a custom activation key.
  4. Hover an element and click it to copy a single element.
  5. With UI Grab active, hold Shift and click multiple elements to build a grouped selection.
  6. Release Shift, type into the prompt textarea, and press Enter to submit.

MCP Bridge

pnpm add -D ui-grab-mcp
npx ui-grab@latest add mcp

Install ui-grab-mcp only if you want an MCP-capable agent to consume UI Grab payloads directly.

  • If you only want the in-browser picker, install ui-grab and stop there.
  • If you want Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenCode, or another MCP-capable agent to read the latest picked UI context, enable the MCP bridge.
  • ui-grab add mcp writes agent config files that run ui-grab-mcp over npx.
  • A project-local ui-grab-mcp install is optional. It is useful when you want to pin the exact MCP version inside a repo or run the server locally yourself.

Manual Setup

Next.js (App Router)

import Script from "next/script";

export default function RootLayout(props: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
  return (
    <html>
      <head>
        {process.env.NODE_ENV === "development" && (
          <Script
            src="https://unpkg.com/ui-grab/dist/index.global.js"
            crossOrigin="anonymous"
            strategy="beforeInteractive"
          />
        )}
      </head>
      <body>{props.children}</body>
    </html>
  );
}

Next.js (Pages Router)

import Script from "next/script";
import { Head, Html, Main, NextScript } from "next/document";

export default function Document() {
  return (
    <Html lang="en">
      <Head>
        {process.env.NODE_ENV === "development" && (
          <Script
            src="https://unpkg.com/ui-grab/dist/index.global.js"
            crossOrigin="anonymous"
            strategy="beforeInteractive"
          />
        )}
      </Head>
      <body>
        <Main />
        <NextScript />
      </body>
    </Html>
  );
}

Vite

if (import.meta.env.DEV) {
  import("ui-grab");
}

Webpack

if (process.env.NODE_ENV === "development") {
  import("ui-grab");
}

Exports

  • Runtime entry: ui-grab
  • Core API: ui-grab/core
  • Primitives: ui-grab/primitives
  • Stylesheet: ui-grab/styles.css
  • CLI: ui-grab
  • MCP bridge: ui-grab-mcp

Support

License

UI Grab is distributed under the MIT license. Keep the original copyright notice and license text when redistributing forked code.