Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built
5 hours ago
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- #software-development
- #automation
- Showboat and Rodney are tools designed to help coding agents demonstrate their work.
- Showboat is a CLI tool that helps agents create Markdown documents showcasing their code's functionality.
- Rodney is a CLI browser automation tool that works with Showboat to demonstrate web interfaces.
- Both tools are designed to minimize manual QA time and ensure code works as expected.
- Showboat includes commands like init, note, exec, and image to build demo documents.
- Rodney uses the Rod library to interact with Chrome DevTools for browser automation.
- Test-driven development (TDD) is encouraged, but manual testing remains essential.
- Both tools were initially built on a phone using Claude Code for web.