/show-me: agent skill for compact visual representations
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Was so sick of reading walls of codex/claude prose, in markdown plans and just in the chat, that I started playing with ideas that force coding agents to display information differently.The human visual cortex is an amazing thing, and getting coding agents to let me use it has been pretty nice so far.Been iterating on this a lot internally for the last few months, polishing and mostly removing stuff.
HN · launched Aug 12, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 36%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent development platforms · 598 launches, 22 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is an agent prompt/skill package (distributed via npx) that instructs LLMs to emit concise visual representations and diagrams instead of verbose prose.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Open weight models lack full multi-modal capabilities and visual understanding, Unclear testing methodology for output quality
Feature requests: Better visual understanding and rendering capabilities, Comprehensive test suite for validating outputs
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1211 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #496 of 1212 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 285 days after the earliest competitor.
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