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TLA+ Workbench skill for coding agents (compat. with Vercel skills CLI)

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HN · launched Feb 22, 2026 · 41 upvotes (top 21%) · 0 views

Niche: ai agent skill registries · 411 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -41% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • AI feature
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes Packaging a TLA+ CLI/model-checker integration as an agent skill compatible with Vercel's skill CLI is a standard wrapper script and prompt/tool definition.

Discussion

4 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Raft (consensus algorithm documentation)

Concerns raised: Limited training data: few TLA+ specs and real codebases in LLM training, Uncertain effectiveness for actual protocol/state-machine modeling, Sparse PlusCal examples available for model learning

Feature requests: Include comprehensive TLA+ language manual and grammar reference, Add more PlusCal examples as reference material, Expand real codebase examples for training

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1268 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #239 of 1269 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 116 days after the earliest competitor.

  • seanswarm · github · 2026-09-16 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Estack · github · 2026-10-09 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • jouet · github · 2026-10-30 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • agent-reliability-skills · github · 2026-10-30 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • A Minecraft builder skill for coding agents · hn · 2026-06-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • RLE-Bench · github · 2026-09-14 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • cline-pilot · github · 2026-09-26 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Lula · hn · 2026-03-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51

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