Hacker News: xenodium

New comment by xenodium in "Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out"

xenodium — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:27:03 +0000

Support vendor agnostic tools offering agent integrations through the likes of Agent Client Protocol https://agentclientprotocol.com

ps. I built Emacs integration through ACP https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell

New comment by xenodium in "Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode"

xenodium — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:39:38 +0000

Wonderful to hear. Thank you sir!

New comment by xenodium in "Show HN: Agent-shell – vendor-neutral chat with AI agents in Emacs"

xenodium — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:44:16 +0000

I recently read someone [1] make the case for a sweet spot blending the best of CLI agents (fast, keyboard-driven, in a terminal) and desktop agents (rich UI: inline images, diffs).

This resonated with me as fairly on point to what agent-shell has been going for, except from inside Emacs, which arguably gets you plenty of goodies at once: it's fast and text/keyboard-driven like a terminal, also renders inline images, markdown and tables like a desktop app, but with first class integration into your text editor (no context switch). Also, since it's all elisp, you can bend any of it to your own workflow.

This release pulls more of that desktop-like experience with richer TAB navigation, actionable items (resizable images) and a more chat-like experience.

Also worth highlighting, agent-shell is vendor-neutral: it speaks ACP, so you can drive Claude, Codex, Gemini... without relearning your tools.

Repo: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell (also on MELPA). Full 0.73 notes: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-73-updates. Feedback welcome.

[1] Sorry, I read this somewhere recently but couldn't find it again.

Show HN: Agent-shell – vendor-neutral chat with AI agents in Emacs

xenodium — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:42:16 +0000

Article URL: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-73-updates#agent-shell-enters-the-chat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309755

Points: 28

# Comments: 1

New comment by xenodium in "My Emacs Configuration (Dired)"

xenodium — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:58:10 +0000

Tangentially related, I wrote https://github.com/xenodium/dwim-shell-command to save all sorts of command invocations (I'm looking at you ffmpeg) and easily batch apply to dired files. Here's a demo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77NtPfgr4x0

Show HN: LMNO.lol – An entire blog in a single Markdown file

xenodium — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:54:02 +0000

Article URL: https://lmno.lol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009772

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Agent-Shell 0.63 Updates

xenodium — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:25:31 +0000

Article URL: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-63-updates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009334

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by xenodium in "ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs"

xenodium — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:09:22 +0000

About that, mine loves Munetaka Murakami's fight song https://www.yakyu-ouen.net/murakami-munetaka, so I had plenty of chances to memorize the words.

This is lovely too :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSBT4ES9b9U&list=RDLSBT4ES9b...

edit: Thanks for Angine de Poitrine!

New comment by xenodium in "ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs"

xenodium — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:11:36 +0000

Thanks! It’s an undecorated frame. I wanted a “widget” experience of sorts.

New comment by xenodium in "ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs"

xenodium — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:58:09 +0000

> Extra impressive considering he has a newborn at home.

My newborn is on board! Nursery rhymes on YT ftw ;)

New comment by xenodium in "ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs"

xenodium — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:52:27 +0000

Glad to hear it worked as advertised! Sorry, not super familiar with evil (on vanilla keys here). Please send a PR if you find out how to configure for evil so we can document in README.

ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs

xenodium — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:21:08 +0000

Article URL: https://xenodium.com/ytr-youtube-radio-for-emacs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636380

Points: 145

# Comments: 10

Bending Emacs Ep. 14: Prototype iOS apps with agent-shell artist-mode and skills [video]

xenodium — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:12:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fdHeUoRRgg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619636

Points: 33

# Comments: 0

Agent-Shell 0.55 Updates

xenodium — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-55-updates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493273

Points: 62

# Comments: 0

New comment by xenodium in "A History of IDEs at Google"

xenodium — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:20:36 +0000

While most IDEs converged to a unified web solution, pockets of devoted users continued to volunteer improvements/integrations for their preferred editors.

During my time there, a relatively small, but fairly active Emacs group, would often share tips, tricks, and elisp integrating the latest internal tools.

Show HN: Kitty.cards – Create Apple Wallet cards online (no login)

xenodium — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:54:26 +0000

Article URL: https://kitty.cards/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482603

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by xenodium in "Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg"

xenodium — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:17:35 +0000

Neat! I did the Emacs equivalent https://github.com/xenodium/video-trimmer

New comment by xenodium in "How I write software with LLMs"

xenodium — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:45:56 +0000

From my experience, you kinda get what you ask for. If you don't ask for anything specific, it'll write as it sees fit. The more you involve yourself in the loop, the more you can get it to write according to your expectation. Also helps to give it a style guide of sorts that follows your preferred style.

New comment by xenodium in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

xenodium — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:50:28 +0000

Resume is supported by agent-shell, but is dependent on agent's to implement the relevant ACP. Do you know if OpenCode's ACP implementation has listing and resuming session support?

Also, you'll need to enable resuming as per post (it's a new feature) https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-47-1-updates

New comment by xenodium in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

xenodium — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:10:56 +0000

That's nice to hear. Thank you!