VS Code Lets You Add Page Elements to Copilot, So I Built It for Any AI Agent
Highlight the element-selection button and the option showing that the context is added to Copilot Chat.Pinpoint did not invent that interaction.The gap I wanted to solve was portability. You can see the exact element, its position, its dimensions, the CSS rules affecting it, and which variable is producing the wrong color.The coding agent sees source files and has to reconstruct all of that from code.VS Code’s built-in Copilot workflow solves this when Copilot Chat is your destination. I wanted the same basic interaction while working with other agents.My manual workaround was to inspect the element in DevTools, copy its outer HTML, copy the relevant styles, and paste everything into the chat.It worked, but it flooded the prompt with a wall of text.
- ▪Highlight the element-selection button and the option showing that the context is added to Copilot Chat.Pinpoint did not invent that interaction.The gap I wanted to solve was portability.
- ▪You can see the exact element, its position, its dimensions, the CSS rules affecting it, and which variable is producing the wrong color.The coding agent sees source files and has to reconstruct all of that from code.VS Code’s built-in Copi
- ▪I wanted the same basic interaction while working with other agents.My manual workaround was to inspect the element in DevTools, copy its outer HTML, copy the relevant styles, and paste everything into the chat.It worked, but it flooded the
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| Original publisher | Medium |
| Canonical URL | https://medium.com/@marcbuilds/i-built-a-vs-code-extension-that-lets-you-click-a-web-page-element-and-paste-it-into-any-ai-chat-b60d2b424ff7 |
| Publication time | Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:48:05 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-20T10:35:38.028Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-20T10:35:38.028Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | pjP2x40Q8YUO |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Visual Studio CodeVscode ExtensionDeveloper ToolsJavaScriptAI AgentVS Code Already Lets You Add Page Elements to Copilot, So I Built a Version for Any AI AgentMarc Builds10 min read·1 day ago--1ListenShareHow Pinpoint recreates VS Code’s element-selection workflow for Codex, Claude Code, and other coding agents using the debugger, workspace files, and the clipboardPress enter or click to view image in full sizeFull Pinpoint workflow, from activation until pasting element to chatPinpoint in action: select an element in VS Code’s Integrated Browser, then paste its generated @.pinpoint/...
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