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Send visual context to an agent

Paste the complete Pinar bundle so the agent sees the comment, target, geometry, and shared image together.

4 min
Visual example: A successful copy flashes Copied successfully, then closes the overlay so you can paste the same bundle into an agent.

In this guide

  1. 1What to paste
  2. 2Screenshot and warnings
  3. 3How to deliver the copied bundle to an agent
1

What to paste

Pinar writes plain Markdown and HTML to the clipboard. The text includes readable annotations plus a fenced pinar-visual-context JSON block. Paste both as one unit; the structured block is the machine-readable source of truth.

2

Screenshot and warnings

If the bundle lists an absolute Screenshot path, the local agent should open that single image; numbered badges are overlays. Warnings such as screenshot_missing, helper_unavailable, or viewer_unavailable describe degraded delivery but do not invalidate the comments and DOM context.

3

How to deliver the copied bundle to an agent

The Chrome extension never types into the agent composer. After Command/Ctrl/Alt+Enter, paste the clipboard yourself into Cursor, Claude, Codex, or Grok. The text begins by saying the pin notes may ask for a change or an explanation, and to treat selector and DOM path as complementary locators, followed by a fenced pinar-visual-context JSON block. If a Viewer URL is included, fetch it only when those details are not enough.

Treat captureId and pinId as identity, not labels to rewrite. Visual Context currently encodes schemaVersion 1; parseVisualCapture rejects a missing captureId and any schemaVersion other than 1 or the legacy 0. Follow only what the pins describe. If the person never pasted, ask them to copy again from Pinar instead of reconstructing pins from memory.

  • Paste the whole clipboard into the agent; do not retype comments or invent a new captureId.
  • Confirm the pasted text still contains a closed pinar-visual-context fence before you start editing code.
  • If nothing was pasted, ask for Command/Ctrl/Alt+Enter in Pinar and follow only the pin notes.
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