The answer to that is no. A lot of these are released on vibes and showing that it does what it says it does. For most organizations that care about processes and procedures thats... enough? I've worked on agentic development in enterprise and they just want their way to stamp their old methods on to the new agentic world so it can pass through their release hoops.
I've tried to benchmark them the most common public skills including those for ADLC (ie SuperPowers) couple of times here https://orcabot.com/benchmarks/agent-skills. Annoyingly I haven't been able to release one in a while because its been next to impossible to stop the new frontier models from cheating one way or another.
Thats awesome. I did something similar (much smaller scale) for Claude Code/Pi to show how much it's working https://github.com/robdmac/flow
But this ASCII Art reminds me of my original desire to have something for each server I SSH into to help me keep a mental map of where I am. I'm not SSH'ing into servers anymore but if I was, I'd totally be trying to remake these scenes on the terminal!
Flow is gorgeous and fits this ascii art theme beautifully. I've installed it and have lots of changes I'd like to make. Are you open to PRs or should I maintain my own fork without expectation of upstreaming anything?
Examples of changes I'd like to see:
1. I want a decay on the flame, so on every state change, the flame slowly works its way back down to a base rate, say at 2 minutes. That would imply that a strong fire is a recently changed state, while a decayed flame is a stale state that hasn't changed in a while.
2. Automatic choosing of a different animation on every open. I run half a dozen to a dozen agents on a single terminal window (full screened on a 27" monitor) and I already built a way to distinguish sessions from other other with my pre-plugin psuedoterminal crabigator and I'd like to do the same for these animations. Basically a way to distinguish sessions from other other.
3. More so than just changing animations, I'd like to have a random palette chosen per-animation, so there's multiple flames, but there's the purple-esque flames, the blue-esque flames, the red ones, the orange ones, the yellow ones, and so on.
4. I'd like a way to integrate the plugin into crabigator so its takes a single section instead of being full width.
Regardless, this is a beautiful mod, reminds me of the type of MUD hacking in the early-to-mid 90s that I used to love as a child, and I'm going to be stealing/integrating this into my workflows immediately.
BTW, I used to have different ASCII art images on each of my servers. Here's a sampling:
I'm absolutely open to PR's. I tried to make it easy to add your own scenes. It's also MIT so feel free to take it and run with it..
1. Yep that makes sense. I haven't really tuned the phase progression much and it def needs a lot of work. For the rocket themes for now they are progressive only until they end but id like to give them the possibility of a bumpy ride so to speak.
2. Yep definitely. Going back to the original server idea.. I'd say it would be even necessary to be able to have a config to make one session have a specific (or random) scene.
3. Yes! I was just thinking about color palettes. ie company or flag colors.
Product hunt has devolved into a network of bot account sellers which PH openly allows. My concern is something like this is a setup for the same. But I’m not naive… is suspect the pay-to-play is the same everywhere cough ShowHN cough.
Open weight models are getting really good. Specko appears to be focussing on paid services which has its role to play but I have a benchmark in development for Open Weight models here if that is helpful: https://orcabot.com/benchmarks/open-weight-tts.
Still shoring up the details but you can try a sample of all the options and see how they compare in terms of model size, peak RSS, real time factor etc.
“Kier Starmer seemed to actually be doing OK” as someone who voted for his Labour I was immediately regretting it when they tried to force Apple to open a backdoor and they are still trying!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/uk-still-trying-backdo...
I’m not a single issue voter but the sheer incompetence of this particular decision is just too damning. It rightly caused friction with our 5 eyes partners. I would expect readers of hackernews to appreciate how dumb and impossible the request was.
That is the entire point of FiveEyes. That is a feature.
The US is technically not allowed to spy on it's own citizens. However, legally speaking, if the UK spies on your citizens and forwards whatever is interesting, it's not the US spying on it's own citizens.
You say this like the FBI hasn't asked Apple for a back door before here in the US
Then why (and I'm not saying I like the guy) did JD Vance come out so publicly against it? I mean you could certainly argue that was all theater and the UK was indeed doing the US's bidding but at some point you have to apply Occam's razor. The end result is Apple don't offer Advanced Data Protection (encryption) to UK users iCloud backups so its not like that "feature" has worked out.
Benchmarking public agent skills: Oh My ClaudeCode, Superpowers, Git Ship Done, (previously Get Shit Done), and the Karpathy ones against Swebench-Pro and SlopCodeBench. I have a July vs June breakdown. It's been an interesting learning exercise and reveals the cost/performance impact of using these.
I've tried to benchmark them the most common public skills including those for ADLC (ie SuperPowers) couple of times here https://orcabot.com/benchmarks/agent-skills. Annoyingly I haven't been able to release one in a while because its been next to impossible to stop the new frontier models from cheating one way or another.
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