/show-me: agent skill for compact visual representations
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. The human visual cortex is an amazing thing, and getting coding agents to let me use it has been pretty nice so far. Been iterating on this a lot internally for the last few months, polishing and mostly removing stuff.
/show-me: agent skill for compact visual representations launched on August 12, 2026 with 12 votes, #920 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
/show-me is a skill that makes coding agents communicate using visual representations like diagrams, trees, and diffs instead of lengthy text explanations. Designed for developers working with AI agents, it helps reduce information overload by leveraging visual understanding rather than prose-heavy responses. The skill is lightweight and installed via command line, offering a more practical way to process complex information during development work.
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From the sources
A small skill that makes coding agents explain software with diagrams, trees, diffs, and focused visual artifacts.
tl;dr make your agent converse visually instead of in walls of prose. Lighter and faster than HTML, good enough for most dev-work shaped problems. Dillon Mulroy even made a skill, /bro to ask the model to simplify language. agents got more intelligent on paper, but the experience of using them got noticeably worse along this dimension. here's a response i got recently. this happens multiple times a day We've been playing with internal tools to make this better, specifically for coding, and publishing them in a skill we call show-me . If you ever watched coda hale's talk on intuition vs. attention in infrastructure systems , it's somewhat inspired: /show-me prompts the agent to use concise…from humanlayer.com
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