Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about Snapvisor - baselines, flaky changes, AI agents, and how to invite someone to your team.
Short answers to the questions we hear most. Can't find yours? Reach us from the Support page.
How to invite someone to my Snapvisor team
Team owners send invites from the team's settings. Open your team, go to its members, and invite the person by email; they receive an invitation and join the team once they accept. New members pick up your team's default role — see members and roles for what that grants.
If you're not on a team yet, ask a team owner to send you an invite, or create your own team from the app.
More questions
- How is this different from raw Playwright snapshot tests?
- Playwright stores PNGs in your repo and fails on any pixel difference — including anti-aliasing noise. Snapvisor compares against an approved baseline with a perceptual engine, groups changes for review, and gives you an approve/reject UI instead of a red X.
- Will it flag anti-aliasing and font rendering noise?
- No. The diff engine uses perceptual thresholds, so the changes that surface are ones a person would actually notice. You can tune sensitivity per project.
- Do I have to rewrite my tests?
- No. Point Snapvisor at your existing Storybook, Playwright, Cypress, or Puppeteer suite using the @snapvisor SDKs — open-source, drop-in forks of the official @argos-ci SDKs — and it captures screenshots from the stories and pages you already have.
- How does baseline approval work?
- When a change is detected, the pull request gets a status check linking to a side-by-side review. Approving a change promotes it to the new baseline for that branch — so intended changes never nag you twice.
- Can AI agents use Snapvisor?
- Yes. Snapvisor runs a remote MCP server at mcp.snapvisor.io. Any MCP client — Claude Code, Cursor, and others — can list builds, read screenshot diffs, and create reviews. MCP access is included on the Pro plan.
- Is Snapvisor open source?
- Snapvisor is built on a proven open-source visual-diff engine, so the core is inspectable and self-hostable. The hosted service adds the review dashboard, integrations, and the MCP server.
Get the current user GET
Retrieve the user associated with the personal access token used to authenticate the request, along with their accessible accounts and GitHub linkage.
Open source
Snapvisor is built on an open-source visual-testing engine you can inspect and self-host, and offers a README badge and sponsorship for open-source projects.