Panel
Productivity
research workspace
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1 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 1 for, 0 against
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Similar self-modifying interface ideas from other builders
From 3 comments
I built a similar idea as a hobby project to see what was possible with harnesses. My idea was give a model a chat input, but outputs can be data models (sqlite), and panels that…
hellojebus on HNHey OP I made something very similar called slices-ide [0] It’s a self modifying editor with embedded agents. Honestly that description doesn’t do it justice, it was an…
purple-leafy on HNthis is very easy (and fun) to do in emacs with gptel as well you can do a lot of very neat stuff when your llm has full access to a lisp repl that can self modify itself / the…
ellg on HN
Cool approach, avoids app switching
From 1 comment
This is cool! We have a similar approach in Nimbalyst... agent makes extensions that are human editable and agent editable ... includes Jupyter, markdown, csv, excalidraw, code,…
wek on HN
Objections
Only Claude Code supported so far
From 1 comment
Hi HN, I built Panel because research work means switching all the time between a chat with an agent, the papers I'm reading, the notebook I'm running and the data files I'm…
greentfrapp on HN
Requests
Support OpenRouter and other harnesses
From 2 comments
Look into openrouter so you aren’t tied to just Claude or codex
purple-leafy on HNIn my opinion it can be more usefol if I can add it with an mcp server, so I can use with my agent and test it in real workflows to see if it can add power and some prons to my…
Gabry848 on HN
Checkpoints with versioning and rollback
From 2 comments
The project seems to be a great initiative however does it have checkpoints? I find that feature a must with agentic workflow for very obvious reasons.
AdityaK_9999 on HNYes versioning and rollback to return to a previous state
AdityaK_9999 on HN
MCP server support
From 2 comments
In my opinion it can be more usefol if I can add it with an mcp server, so I can use with my agent and test it in real workflows to see if it can add power and some prons to my…
Gabry848 on HNI believe currently it would work if you've already set up the MCPs via Claude Code, because it's running off your local Claude Code under the hood. But I'll look into surfacing…
greentfrapp on HN
Questions
How does it work?
From 2 comments
Sounds cool, can you explain a bit more how it works?
janket on HNI’m not familiar with this concept. So the purpose is to have a chat llm spawn new independent activity windows all in the same chat context?
xtiansimon on HN
Alternatives named
Slices-ide
From 1 comment
Hey OP I made something very similar called slices-ide [0] It’s a self modifying editor with embedded agents. Honestly that description doesn’t do it justice, it was an…
purple-leafy on HN
Emacs with gptel
From 1 comment
this is very easy (and fun) to do in emacs with gptel as well you can do a lot of very neat stuff when your llm has full access to a lisp repl that can self modify itself / the…
ellg on HN
Nimbalyst
From 1 comment
This is cool! We have a similar approach in Nimbalyst... agent makes extensions that are human editable and agent editable ... includes Jupyter, markdown, csv, excalidraw, code,…
wek on HN