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.<p>The human visual cortex is an amazing thing, and getting coding agents to let me use i

A small skill that makes coding agents explain software with diagrams, trees, diffs, and focused visual artifacts.
show-me: a coding agent skill for compact visual representations | HumanLayer Blog # show-me: a coding agent skill for compact visual representations Dex · August 12, 2026 · < 7 min read # agents # skills # claudecode # best-practices tl;dr make your agent converse visually instead of in walls of prose. npx skills add humanlayer/skills --skill show-me Lighter and faster than HTML, good enough for most dev-work shaped problems. ### Coding agents are pretty much unreadable The former CEO of reddit: https://x.com/yishan/status/2086534431075098628 Mario Zechner , creator of pi: https://x.com/ba
A small skill that makes coding agents explain software with diagrams, trees, diffs, and focused visual artifacts.
show-me: a coding agent skill for compact visual representations | HumanLayer Blog # show-me: a coding agent skill for compact visual representations Dex · August 12, 2026 · < 7 min read # agents # skills # claudecode # best-practices tl;dr make your agent converse visually instead of in walls of prose. npx skills add humanlayer/skills --skill show-me Lighter and faster than HTML, good enough for most dev-work shaped problems. ### Coding agents are pretty much unreadable The former CEO of reddit: https://x.com/yishan/status/2086534431075098628 Mario Zechner , creator of pi: https://x.com/ba