Unpack
a lightweight way to steer Codex/Claude with phased docs
Details
- External ID
- 46979886
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Unpack
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.38207547169811323
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I've been using LLMs for long discovery and research chats (papers, repos, best practices), then distilling that into phased markdown (build plan + tests), then handing those phases to Codex/Claude to implement and test phase by phase.The annoying part was always the distillation and keeping docs and architecture current, so I built Unpack: a lightweight GitHub template plus docs structure and a few commands that turns conversations into phases/specs and keeps project docs up to date as the agent builds. It can also generate Mintlify-friendly end-user docs.There are other spec-driven workflows and tools out there. I wanted something conversation-first and repo-native: plain markdown phases, minimal ceremony, easy to adapt per stack.Example generated with Unpack (tiny pokedex plus random monsters):Demo: https://apresmoi.github.io/pokesvg-codex/Phases index: https://github.com/apresmoi/pokesvg-codex/blob/main/.unpack/...I’d love feedback on what the “minimum good” phase/spec format should be, and what would make this actually usable in your workflow.--------Repo: https://github.com/apresmoi/unpack
Enrichment
- Theme
- Claude integrations and coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- prompt steering framework for code models
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a developer utility script/tool that breaks planning documents into sequential markdown phases and feeds them into AI coding assistants.
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