A BugHerd alternative built around your coding agent.
BugHerd manages feedback. Pincushion helps coding agents implement it. Pins carry selector, DOM snippet, screenshot, viewport, thread, and project context in one MCP call — so Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex land the change in your IDE, not a Kanban column.
What Pincushion is built for
Pincushion is the implementation context layer for AI-native development. The data model treats a pin as an agent work packet — not a feedback item — so the gap between "stakeholder pointed at a button" and "code change shipped in your IDE" collapses to one MCP call.
- AI-native builders shipping with Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or Copilot
- Small web agencies who want clients to drop pins their agent can act on (fewer revision calls)
- Small product teams who want UI feedback before it becomes a bloated ticket
How Pincushion differs
| Pincushion | BugHerd | |
|---|---|---|
| Pin payload designed as agent work packet (selector + DOM + screenshot + viewport + thread + acceptance criteria) | Yes | Feedback metadata |
| Center of gravity | IDE (slash commands, branch/PR/deploy linkage) | Dashboard + Kanban |
| Free unlimited stakeholder/commenter seats | Yes | Per-user pricing |
| Realtime push to coding agents on deploy | Yes (Pro) | No |
| IDE slash commands (claim / implement / resolve) | Yes (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf) | No |
| Post-deploy verification (AI verifies the fix) | Yes (Pro) | No |
| Skips Jira / project-management ceremony by design | Yes | Jira-integrated |
| Free tier | Full workflow, 1 project, unlimited pins | 14-day trial |
| Starting price | $19/mo (Pro) | $8/user/mo |
Other tools hand feedback to developers. Pincushion hands it to your coding agent — selector, DOM, screenshot, viewport, thread, and project context, all in one MCP call.
Stop turning feedback into tickets. Turn it into agent-ready code work.
Pincushion is free for stakeholders forever. Editors get an MCP server that exposes pins to whichever coding agent you already use. The deploy hook auto-resolves pins on production and the MCP tools keep PR and deploy context attached to the pin's implementation record.