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Multi-Session Support

Run multiple AI client instances simultaneously, each paired to a different browser window. No per-instance setup needed - every session uses the same MCP config.

Session Pairing

Renaming Sessions

Sessions auto-name based on your AI client and project (e.g. "Claude Code - MyProject"). Rename them any of three ways:

Visual Indicators

Each session gets an auto-assigned colour that appears across the UI:

• •Popup – Coloured dot next to the session name
• •Picker – Floating pill at the top-right showing the session name during capture
• •Prompt panel – "Sending to" indicator showing the paired session
• •Toast notifications – Colour stripe when an unpaired session requests element selection

Asking Your AI About Its Session

• •"What session are you?" – your AI calls pointdev_session and tells you its name, ID, and port
• •"Call yourself Backend" – your AI renames the session, and the extension updates everywhere

MCP Tools

What Gets Captured

All data is serialised to a token-budgeted JSON payload with progressive truncation to fit within AI context limits.

Configuration

MCP Server

The server listens on port 52140 inside the container. With Docker's ephemeral port mapping (-p 127.0.0.1:0:52140), each instance gets a unique host port automatically.

Extension

Open the extension options page (right-click toolbar icon > Options) to configure:

• • Capture features - Toggle diagnostics, pseudo-state CSS, component detection, inherited CSS
• • Responsive breakpoints - Choose preset or custom breakpoints for responsive capture

Status Bar Integration (Claude Code on macOS)

When running multiple Claude Code instances, add the PointDev session name to your status bar so you always know which session each terminal is paired with.

The MCP config in the Quick Start already includes the required Docker label. Add the following snippet to your ~/.claude/statusline.sh after your git branch detection:

# ---- PointDev session discovery ----
# Requires: --label pointdev.claude-pid=$PPID in the docker run command.
pointdev_session=""

_pd_claude_ancestor=""
_pd_pid=$$
while [ -n "$_pd_pid" ] && [ "$_pd_pid" -gt 1 ] 2>/dev/null; do
  _pd_comm=$(ps -o comm= -p "$_pd_pid" 2>/dev/null | xargs)
  case "${_pd_comm##*/}" in claude) _pd_claude_ancestor="$_pd_pid"; break;; esac
  _pd_pid=$(ps -o ppid= -p "$_pd_pid" 2>/dev/null | tr -d ' ')
done

if [ -n "$_pd_claude_ancestor" ] && command -v docker >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  _pd_port=$(docker ps --filter "label=pointdev.claude-pid=$_pd_claude_ancestor" \
    --format '{{.Ports}}' 2>/dev/null | grep -o ':[0-9]*->' | head -1 | tr -dc '0-9')
  if [ -n "$_pd_port" ]; then
    for _pd_file in "$HOME"/.pointdev/sessions/*.json; do
      [ -f "$_pd_file" ] || continue
      _pd_name=$(jq -r '.name // empty' "$_pd_file" 2>/dev/null)
      _pd_sport=$(jq -r '.port // empty' "$_pd_file" 2>/dev/null)
      if [ "$_pd_sport" = "$_pd_port" ]; then
        pointdev_session="$_pd_name"
        break
      fi
    done
  fi
fi

if [ -n "$pointdev_session" ]; then
  printf '🔍 \033[38;5;208m%s\033[0m  ' "$pointdev_session"
fi

Requires jq and docker on the host. The indicator appears when a PointDev session is active and disappears when it stops.

Troubleshooting