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There has to be a much better way to share your setup

by mixtureoftakes 17d ago

xnx 17d ago
Any setup that is longer than a sentence or two of plain text is almost certainly overcomplicated.
- vegadw 17d ago
  Not really? I have some custom skills/MCP servers I use: one MCP server for using https://usefeyn.com/blog/pulpie-pareto-optimal-models-for-cleaning-the-web/ https://usefeyn.com/blog/pulpie-pareto-optimal-models-for-cl... ran locally so that reading web pages is cheaper and uses up less context One MCP server for doing automated code quality checking, using Valknut, Jscpd, and Lizard to output scores, combine/aggregate them. That's then give to the model so that it can see if there's a mess of code dupe or if there was significant architectural regression. It's allowed to say "This is worth it" but it ground it a bit and stops really stupid, short sighted, hacked-in features Another uses https://github.com/thejens/id-token-nicer https://github.com/thejens/id-token-nicer so that the model doesn't bork a big ID without being noticed. It's told to translate in and out of that as necessary. I had it write it's own skill for making sure to follow some sane commenting/style guides per language, that way it doesn't just give me massive files with no comments. Finally, a last one lets Antigravity or Codex call out to local models as workers, for long running background tasks where a cheap, dumb model is fine. Saves on overall token usage. I also have a few skills from the internet setup. https://github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill https://github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill being the most important one. On top of that, the way people work is notable: Do you use worktrees for agents? Why/why not? Do you have only one subscription? What level? I'm using both Codex at $20/mo and Antigravity at (promo) $5/mo right now. Antigravity's TOS says you MUST use their harness, which informs some of my skill setup/workflow. Do you make your agents.md self modifying, write it yourself, or not use one at all? Do you use a sandbox or YOLO it? Even just how you prompt matters. On Antigravity/Gemini, I can give it a big list-o-TODOs and have it make a very detailed implementation plan itself, carry it out, and generally do the thing, all unsupervised. Codex, from what I have experienced, isn't as good at that. Doing the planning as a separate step, writing to a file, then telling it to step-by-step it with commits for each step makes it work okay again though.
  - koolba 17d ago
    > I also have a few skills from the internet setup. https://github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill https://github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill being the most important one. From the README for that skill: > Install the skill, and Claude debugs your code the way you would — not with print statements. Jokes on you! I use print statements too!
ad_fontes 17d ago
Yeah, there is... Post your tooling to GitHub and link to it with a human-written description in a place like HN or Reddit. I don't know why this has to be reinvented?
- pixl97 17d ago
  Ah yes, just what people want, 50,000 posts about your AI setup on HN. Concentrating certain types of information can be useful. You don't go to an encyclopedia looking for a recepie.
  - taude 17d ago
    I don't ming a "ASK HN: What's your AI Setup", and then sifting through the 100s of comments on what people are doing. Then I'd scrape all that into my LLM WIKI and start digesting.....
  - gbraad 15d ago
    But you do browse through listings to find that car you like.
eithed 17d ago
ShareYourAISetup folks create a skill that user can run locally that collects information re their setup, formats it and sends to dedicated endpoint. Result = fairly uniform reports where people share what they're comfortable sharing. No requirement from given user to spend their time. Users see what the skill does. I guess atm they dont know what questions they want to be asking

There has to be a much better way to share your setup

xnx 17d ago

Any setup that is longer than a sentence or two of plain text is almost certainly overcomplicated.

vegadw 17d ago
Not really? I have some custom skills/MCP servers I use: one MCP server for using https://usefeyn.com/blog/pulpie-pareto-optimal-models-for-cleaning-the-web/ https://usefeyn.com/blog/pulpie-pareto-optimal-models-for-cl... ran locally so that reading web pages is cheaper and uses up less context One MCP server for doing automated code quality checking, using Valknut, Jscpd, and Lizard to output scores, combine/aggregate them. That's then give to the model so that it can see if there's a mess of code dupe or if there was significant architectural regression. It's allowed to say "This is worth it" but it ground it a bit and stops really stupid, short sighted, hacked-in features Another uses https://github.com/thejens/id-token-nicer https://github.com/thejens/id-token-nicer so that the model doesn't bork a big ID without being noticed. It's told to translate in and out of that as necessary. I had it write it's own skill for making sure to follow some sane commenting/style guides per language, that way it doesn't just give me massive files with no comments. Finally, a last one lets Antigravity or Codex call out to local models as workers, for long running background tasks where a cheap, dumb model is fine. Saves on overall token usage. I also have a few skills from the internet setup. https://github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill https://github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill being the most important one. On top of that, the way people work is notable: Do you use worktrees for agents? Why/why not? Do you have only one subscription? What level? I'm using both Codex at $20/mo and Antigravity at (promo) $5/mo right now. Antigravity's TOS says you MUST use their harness, which informs some of my skill setup/workflow. Do you make your agents.md self modifying, write it yourself, or not use one at all? Do you use a sandbox or YOLO it? Even just how you prompt matters. On Antigravity/Gemini, I can give it a big list-o-TODOs and have it make a very detailed implementation plan itself, carry it out, and generally do the thing, all unsupervised. Codex, from what I have experienced, isn't as good at that. Doing the planning as a separate step, writing to a file, then telling it to step-by-step it with commits for each step makes it work okay again though.
- koolba 17d ago
  > I also have a few skills from the internet setup. https://github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill https://github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill being the most important one. From the README for that skill: > Install the skill, and Claude debugs your code the way you would — not with print statements. Jokes on you! I use print statements too!

ad_fontes 17d ago

Yeah, there is... Post your tooling to GitHub and link to it with a human-written description in a place like HN or Reddit. I don't know why this has to be reinvented?

pixl97 17d ago
Ah yes, just what people want, 50,000 posts about your AI setup on HN. Concentrating certain types of information can be useful. You don't go to an encyclopedia looking for a recepie.
- taude 17d ago
  I don't ming a "ASK HN: What's your AI Setup", and then sifting through the 100s of comments on what people are doing. Then I'd scrape all that into my LLM WIKI and start digesting.....
- gbraad 15d ago
  But you do browse through listings to find that car you like.

eithed 17d ago

ShareYourAISetup folks create a skill that user can run locally that collects information re their setup, formats it and sends to dedicated endpoint. Result = fairly uniform reports where people share what they're comfortable sharing. No requirement from given user to spend their time. Users see what the skill does. I guess atm they dont know what questions they want to be asking