hey! are you talking about ai-sdk dev tools? https://ai-sdk-tools.dev/devtools or something else i'm missing.

if so, few big differences:

* it can connect to your coding agent (e.g. claude code) so it can see traces, write evals, run your agent, etc.

* compatible with pretty much any sdk you can imagine (and growing - we just took a pr someone made for livekit support)

* dev tools is cool but more like a little widget in your browser. this is, imo, better agent trace viewer than anything that exists.

tldr; lots of perks to being an actual server/app on localhost