Rivet

Rivet is an AI design tool that helps designers explore multiple real interface directions from the coding agents they already use. Instead of asking an agent for one design change and hoping the first answer is usable, Rivet lets teams generate several working variants of a screen, section, or component and compare them side by side. The product is built for software teams that design directly against production code. Each direction runs in its own isolated copy of the project, so users can inspect live previews without risking the original files. Designers can review multiple concepts, refine promising versions, and commit the winning direction as a normal code change. Rivet works with agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and OpenAI Codex CLI. Its local setup includes a command line tool, a local server for managing variants and previews, and a browser UI for comparing the generated directions. The documentation also highlights MCP support, which makes Rivet useful inside modern agent driven development workflows. For FutureStack users, Rivet is strongest when a founder, product designer, or frontend developer wants to explore visual directions quickly without creating static mockups first. It is less of a traditional canvas design app and more of a bridge between design intent, AI coding agents, live product previews, and shippable UI changes.