From session replay to development plan: annotations in full stack session recordings
Add sketches, notes, and requirements directly to your full stack session recordings. Highlight interactions, API calls, or traces and turn them into actionable development plans or AI prompts.
Traditional session replay tools give you a window into what the user saw. A few let you blur sensitive data or leave a quick sketch. Some rely on third-party integrations to manage annotations at all.
What they don’t give you is a way to connect annotations to the actual system data: the API calls, traces, and logs that explain what really happened. And they certainly don’t make those annotations AI-ready, so you can feed them straight into your IDE or coding assistant.
That’s where Multiplayer annotations come in.
Add sketches and notes on a session recording
Notes in Multiplayer let you turn raw session recordings into actionable development plans.
Whether you’re fixing a bug, clarifying requirements, or sketching a new feature idea, notes help capture context directly on the timeline and share it with your team or turn it into an AI prompt.
- From replay to plan → Transform session data into precise, contextualized instructions.
- Cross-role collaboration → Share annotated replays with devs, QA, PMs, or vendors for clear handoffs.
- AI-ready context → Feed annotated sessions into your AI tools to generate code, tests, or feature implementations with minimal prompting.
What you can annotate
After you’ve recorded a session, you can enrich it with multiple types of annotations:
- Sketch on the replay to highlight UI elements or problem areas
- Add text directly on screens with instructions or clarifications
- Drop timestamp notes to capture repro steps, requirements, or design intentions
- Annotate full stack data like user actions, API calls, traces, and spans — automatically linked to frontend context
- Add blocks of text, code, or visualizations, just like in notebooks
ℹ️ For a detailed overview guide, please refer to: Full stack session recording notes
Pulling sketches and notes into your AI coding tool
Use the Multiplayer MCP server to pull your full stack session recording screenshots and notes into your AI coding tools.
Because annotations carry metadata, they’re machine-readable. They’re not just helpful for humans, they’re structured context your AI tools can consume directly.
This means your copilot doesn’t just “see” a session: it understands the requirements, context, and team intent tied to that session. From there, it can generate accurate fixes, tests, or even implement new features with minimal prompting.
Beyond Replay: Capture, Fix, Validate, Repeat
Annotations in most session replay tools are superficial: a blur here, a sticky note there.
Multiplayer closes the loop. Developers can annotate replays with comments, sketches, and requirements. They can hand full context to an AI coding tool that already has all the correlated data (user steps, traces, request/response content, headers, developer notes and plans) to generate accurate fixes or new features. They can auto-generate runnable test scripts from sessions to validate the fix and prevent regressions.
End-to-end visibility is just the starting point. Multiplayer turns recordings into a complete debugging and development workflow: capture, annotate, fix, validate, and document.
Getting started
👀 If this is the first time you’ve heard about us, you may want to see full stack session recordings in action. You can do that in our free sandbox: sandbox.multiplayer.app
🚀 If you’re ready to trial Multiplayer, the fastest way to get started is to install our browser extension from the Chrome Web Store (Chrome, Firefox, and Edge supported).