Microsoft Agent Viewer
Details
- External ID
- 46381460
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Microsoft Agent Viewer
- Website domain
- pages.dev
- Launched
- Dec. 25, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4933206106870229
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I missed clippy and bonzi buddy, so I spent the past few days reversing and implementing microsofts old agent format (acs) and wrote a small viewer on top of it (wasm + typescript)You can check out the code here as well: https://github.com/Ell/bonzi
Enrichment
- Theme
- browser automation and scraping for AI
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- viewer for microsoft agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Reverse-engineering Microsoft's proprietary legacy binary ACS (Agent Character Sprite) file format and building a custom WebAssembly binary decoder requires specialized binary reverse-engineering and low-level graphics decoding skills.
What it would actually take: The developer had to inspect binary hex dumps of 1990s-era Microsoft Agent (.acs) files, reverse-engineer proprietary compression/encryption schemes, unpack custom RIFF structures, and extract bitmap frame sequences and WAV audio. Implementing the parser in WebAssembly (e.g., via Rust or C++) and compiling to WASM requires low-level systems programming and reverse-engineering tooling (Ghidra, HexFiend) before integrating into a TypeScript/Canvas playback viewer.
Discussion
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Launched 8 days after the earliest competitor.
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