Clueprint is now a Mac app
The original Clueprint was an MCP server for browser checks. Agents got good at browsers, the problem dissolved, and the name moved to a problem that's growing instead.
Some of you know an earlier Clueprint: an MCP server that gave coding agents browser checks (DOM snapshots, flow recordings, audits) so they could verify their own web work instead of shipping blind.
That tool is retired, and the reason is the good kind: the problem dissolved. Agent browser control got dramatically better. Claude and its peers now drive real browsers, read real pages, and verify their own work natively - a separate verification layer stopped earning its place in the stack. Building a tool that the platforms make unnecessary isn’t a failure mode; it’s the timeline working as intended. We’d rather say that plainly than let a repo rot in ambiguity.
Why the name moved
The name stays because the mission does: making agent-driven development trustworthy. The first Clueprint checked agents’ work in the browser. This Clueprint deals with what agents leave behind - the worktrees, dev servers, and Docker stacks that keep running long after the branch merged. Browser verification was a shrinking problem. Agent-generated sprawl is a growing one; every month of better agents produces more branches, more environments, more things nobody turned off.
“So you’ll retire this one too?”
Fair question, and it deserves a real answer rather than a promise.
First, the difference in kind: the MCP was a free experiment sitting in the middle of a fast-moving stack, dependent on how agents happened to work that month. The Mac app sits on things that aren’t going anywhere - git, processes, containers, disk.
Second, and this is the part we designed deliberately: Clueprint does its monitoring and cleanup locally. Paid licenses use Polar for activation and periodic validation. If a license check cannot reach Polar, the app keeps the stored license active. There is no subscription, and the end of a standard license’s update period does not stop the installed version from working. Cleanup still requires confirmation and refuses to remove dirty or unpushed worktrees.
We think the honest track record (retiring things clearly instead of letting them decay, and building the new thing so it fails safe) is worth more than pretending we’ve never sunset anything.
Update, October 20, 2026: This post originally announced the free beta. Clueprint is free again. Every feature works, with no trial and no license key. Download Clueprint.