Ansight vs agent-device
Ansight combines app control, deep runtime inspection, session replay, and verification in one connected workflow, so evidence from one activity carries into the next. Here is where agent-device fits and when to choose Ansight.
What agent-device offers
Agent-operated devices, runtime diagnostics, React inspection, recorded flows, and CI.
Why choose Ansight
Choose Ansight when you want SDK-exposed application state, guarded domain tools, and rich historical sessions connected to repository verification.
Capabilities vary by SDK, platform, and enabled tools. Descriptions of agent-device reflect its public documentation at the time of writing.
Ansight vs AI-driven testing
App-internal context alongside agent control.
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Inspect beyond the screen.
An SDK-connected app can expose framework properties, permitted app state, and guarded domain tools. The agent can use these to investigate what produced a visible result.
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Reuse deterministic work.
Keep known setup and navigation in source-controlled tasks. Use agent reasoning for the parts of a flow that need it.
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Keep the investigation.
Captured actions stay connected to available screenshots, trees, logs, network activity and telemetry. People and agents can review the same session after a run.
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Start with your agent.
Your existing coding agent can use the free local CLI to inspect and drive a development app. Delegated UI test runs and team sharing are available through Ansight Cloud.
The difference
A run in Ansight becomes an asset for the next stage.
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Debug test
Use the captured failure, actions, and state to author a regression check.
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Test debug
Investigate a failed run using its retained runtime evidence.
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UI internal state
Cross-reference visible behaviour with exposed framework and database state.
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Performance verification
Use observed measurements to inform repeatable checks.
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Investigation handoff
Preserve the session and annotations for another engineer or agent.
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Fix evidence
Repeat the relevant workflow and inspect whether the expected results occurred.
What Ansight brings together
The capabilities behind the workflow.
| Capability | What Ansight brings together | Why it matters |
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| Deep session replay | Screenshots, visual trees, logs, network events, touches, metrics, saved app data, and annotations. | Preserve the runtime context around a failure for investigation and verification. |
| Live app control | Semantic UI selection, input, navigation, waits, and assertions. | Let agents reproduce behaviour and check the result in the running app. |
| Framework-aware inspection | MAUI bindings and diagnostics, Flutter widget information, React Native component inspection, and native view access. | Explain behaviour using information beyond the visible screen. |
| App-data verification | Read-only SQLite queries and concrete database assertions. | Verify persisted results alongside UI state. |
| App-defined tools | Guarded operations that expose your application's own diagnostics and domain state. | Give agents direct answers about behaviour specific to your app. |
| Guarded state changes | Supported property mutations, framework actions, and custom operations. | Investigate behaviour and prepare verification scenarios with controlled access. |
| Repository tests | Agent-driven scenarios, validation instructions, execution results, and retained audits. | Turn investigation findings into reusable verification. |
| Scripted tasks and triggers | Repository-controlled operations, tool composition, and event-driven automation. | Reuse diagnostic and verification procedures across workflows. |
| Native profiling | Instruments and Perfetto integration. | Investigate performance with platform profiling tools. |
| Performance Trends | Historical measurements, percentiles, and memory-growth analysis. | Identify changes across runs and inform performance checks. |
| Evidence correlation | Action identifiers, timestamps, captured trees, screenshots, and assertion results. | Follow an interaction through its associated runtime evidence. |
| Annotations and handoff | Timeline and UI-target context, portable archives, and historical session review. | Preserve what matters when work moves between people or agents. |
| Configurable sanitisation | Policies for redacting captured content, screenshots, and exported files. | Prepare evidence for handoff with deliberate control over its contents. |
| Physical and virtual devices | SDK-connected runtime inspection on supported hardware, simulators, and emulators. | Investigate behaviour in the environments relevant to your app. |
See the evidence trail on your app.
Install the free CLI and connect your app to get started.