# Surcease

> Surcease is a local visual editing layer for coding agents. It lets developers select rendered components, draw annotations, save multiple change notes, and send exact UI context to a coding agent already installed on their machine.

Surcease works locally with the developer's repository and agent CLI. The public website is informational; it does not provide a hosted editing account or collect repository source code.

## Primary pages

- [Surcease](https://surcease.dev/): Product overview, visual workflow, Anvil reviews, supported coding agents, and setup choices.
- [Changelog](https://surcease.dev/changelog): Dated, real release notes.
- [Privacy](https://surcease.dev/privacy): Local processing and website cookie details.
- [Terms](https://surcease.dev/terms): Product terms and user responsibilities.

## Product concepts

- Visual notes: Select one or more rendered components, use box or draw markup, and attach a short instruction.
- Local workflow: Context goes from the local website to the user's chosen local coding-agent CLI; Surcease does not proxy model requests.
- Setup: no code changes. Surcease serves the developer's own application through a local proxy that adds the inspector to HTML responses; they open the address it prints instead of their usual development URL.
- Supported agents: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Aider, and OpenCode work with no setup file. Any other non-interactive CLI agent, including Antigravity, can be added via a local `surcease.config.json`. Local models pulled in Ollama appear automatically.
- Editors: `surcease mcp` runs an MCP server on stdio, so Cursor, Claude Desktop, Codex and other MCP clients can collect marked-up edits instead of Surcease pushing them to a CLI.
- Anvil: Optional Protection, Thorns, and Unbreaking review philosophies covering security/privacy, abuse resistance, and scalability/reliability.

## Canonical information

- Canonical origin: https://surcease.dev
- Sitemap: https://surcease.dev/sitemap.xml
- Robots: https://surcease.dev/robots.txt
- Full product context: https://surcease.dev/llms-full.txt