# Stop letting your coding agent claim "pixel-perfect". Make it prove 97.49%.

> Source: <https://dev.to/hongnoul/stop-letting-your-coding-agent-claim-pixel-perfect-make-it-prove-9749-f4f>
> Published: 2026-07-25 09:31:44+00:00

Your coding agent edits a component, runs the build, and reports the UI is now "pixel-perfect." It never opened a browser. It's guessing.

I got tired of that, so I built [hwatu](https://github.com/hongnoul/hwatu), a browser designed specifically for the agent verification loop.

```
hwatu --headless http://localhost:3000   # open, no focus steal
hwatu wait-load                          # block until loaded
hwatu eval 'document.title'              # DOM-level checks
hwatu shot /tmp/check.png                # screenshot
hwatu diff --id 1 --baseline before.png  # pixel diff: 97.49% match + heatmap
hwatu close 1
```

The whole loop, screenshot included, runs in about 87 ms on my laptop. Cheap enough that the agent can verify after every edit instead of claiming success blind.

`webkitgtk-6.0`

. No 170 MB download per project.`hwatu mcp`

), plain CLI, and a 1-line JSON socket. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Jcode, or any harness.Every benchmark in the repo was measured on real runs with scripts you can rerun: window spawn medians of 13-16 ms, ~87 ms full verification loop, memory measured via PSS across all WebKit child processes. Methodology in [docs/benchmarks.md](https://github.com/hongnoul/hwatu/blob/main/docs/benchmarks.md).

```
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hongnoul/hwatu/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
hwatu setup   # detects Claude Code, Cursor, Jcode, or generic MCP
```

MIT licensed. Linux (WebKitGTK). Feedback and issues welcome: [https://github.com/hongnoul/hwatu](https://github.com/hongnoul/hwatu)
