The frontend review toolkit.

maple-kit.org · 2026-09-27 · by Long Nguyen ·generic
Maple is the open-source frontend review toolkit. Mount it in your own app and review a deployed preview in any state, as any user: point at what is wrong, your coding agent reads the comment over MCP with everything it needs, and CI holds the merge until it is resolved.

The frontend review toolkit.

The frontend review toolkit.

Make your apps delightful to use with Maple.

Read the intro postHow it works

The bottleneck moved.

Code got fast. Planning, DoDs and edge cases didn't, so now they get skipped and surface in testing.

Then

Settled before anyone opened an editor.

1. Sprint plan 2. A ticket per story 3. A design on every ticket 4. Edge cases mapped, DoD well defined 5. Write the codethe slow part 6. Review a small diff

Now

The code is cheap now. Nothing upstream of it got faster.

1. A partial design, at best 2. A prompt 3. A whole feature by the afternoon 4. Feedback from everyone, everywhere 5. Review, and decide the restthe slow part 6. Keep going until everyone's happy

The unit of work grew.An agent ships a whole sub-product in an afternoon. You still have to verify all of it.

The design is partial, or missing.The happy path at best. The agent fills the gaps, and finding what it invented is on you.

Anyone can start the work.Designers and PMs trigger the agent themselves. More people, more of the product, and the tooling has to keep up.

The expensive hour is no longer the one spent writing code: it is spent looking at the agent’s results, working out everything that’s wrong with it, and translating all the feedback into insights that an agent can act on. Maple saves you that hour.

The worst interruptions are the ones that needed nothing from you.

You open a PR, then feedback starts coming back from three people in three places, and you spend the day as the translator between them and your agent. None of it wanted your judgement.

Without MapleWith Maple

Without Maple

10

17:14

10 interrupts so far

AI

@Claude terminalwhich CTA?

M

Maya #designany update?

Eight hours of relaying, and the agent still asks which button.

With Maple

pricing.preview.app

Team

$12

Scale

$29

MCramped: 12px under the price, 16 everywhere else.resolved

AIyour agent

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  • maple/visual-review passing

    Minutes, and one interrupt for you.

    How it works

    Mount Maple in your app, then the magic happens.

    1. ### 01Mount One route in your application, and one script in the preview build. 2. ### 02Comment A reviewer points to an issue on the app. Maple records all the context needed for the agent to pick it up. 3. ### 03Fix Your agent monitors new comments via the MCP, implements a fix and marks it as resolved. 4. ### 04Gate A CI check holds the merge until all comments are resolved, and all visual gates pass.

    Everything around a frontend review, in one kit.

    Tools in this space exist, but they only do small pieces of what Maple offers you out of the box, and free.

    An element, an area, or a passage

    Pick a component, drag a box over part of the page, or select the words that are wrong. Maple keeps the path that finds each one again after a redeploy.

    Every comment carries its context

    The width, the colour scheme, a screenshot taken at the moment of the pick, and who wrote it, asked of your app rather than an account system of Maple's own.

    Deployed previews, not localhost

    Maple runs on the preview URL your CI already builds, so anyone holding the link can leave a comment: a designer, a product manager, a client.

    A CLI your agent can drive

    The maple command plans mocks and lists what each connector may implement, with `--json` on every command, so an agent drives it from a terminal as easily as you do.

    Your agent picks it up over MCP

    It waits for comments, reads each one with its context, makes the change, and resolves the comment against the commit that fixed it.

    The file and the line

    A build-time tagger marks every JSX element with where it was written, so a comment arrives pointing at the source rather than at a selector.

    Maple stores nothing itself

    Comments live in what you already run, such as the pull request itself or Datadog. A connector is one file of plain Promise-returning methods.

    A merge gate

    maple/visual-review fails while a comment is open and, if you want, until the reviewer approves. It clears because the work is done.

    A design lint gate

    in progress

    The rules a machine can check, read off the page the browser actually laid out: tokens only, the type scale, touch targets, contrast, and motion that honours reduced motion. The rendered rules run today. The check that holds the merge comes next.

    A score, if you want one

    optional

    The comment is judged as it is typed, against five pillars, by a classifier you supply. It favours a comment an agent can act on.

    Any state, on request

    new

    Type the state you want to review, like empty, failing or a thousand rows, and the page's API calls return it. A model only picks the state. Code writes every byte.

    As any user, with any flag

    new

    Say who you want to be and what is switched on. Maple reads the sentence into a role, permissions and feature flags you can check before the page reloads.

    What comes next.The full roadmap on GitHub

    The Maple vision is extensive: here are some of the things that are not yet implemented (pull requests are appreciated!)

    The full roadmap on GitHub

    on Plan card

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    replayPostHog · Sentryreopen1440px · lightre-verifyafter each deploy

    Context and replay

    A session replay link on every comment, a comment reopened at the width it was written at, and a re-check after each deploy.

    maple-kit/maple#139

    on Chart bars

    fix deployed in a1b2c3d

    before

    after

    AcceptReject

    Accept the fix in the preview

    Your agent posts its fix on the comment, with a before and after. The reviewer accepts it where they wrote it, and the gate clears with no push.

    maple-kit/maple#146

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  • $maple setup\# wire the app
  • $maple review\# no wiring
  • $maple list --json\# for agents
  • $maple ci gate\# in CI
  • $maple tuiwanted?
  • Everything, from the terminal

    All the overlay does, as commands with `--json` for agents. Connectors and mock plans ship today; a TUI is an open question.

    maple-kit/maple#152

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    forges

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    stores

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    WebhooksSlack

    replay

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    previews

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    More connectors

    More forges, stores, exporters and preview platforms, so Maple fits more of what you already run.

    maple-kit/maple#156

    Maple is in Beta (but not for long!)

    Some interfaces can still break with new and improved additions, but Maple is already proven helpful in actual production environments.

    Read the intro postGitHub

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