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Show HN: Discuss CLI – No more reviewing agent plans in the terminal

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Post by codesoda »

I'm a big user of Codex and Claude Code in the terminal. However after a big brainstorming and planning session I was finding myself with lots of comments and questions about difference places in the plan file.

So I built Discuss CLI. It turns any Markdown file (or stdin -) into a browser review surface with PR-style comments. Your existing coding agent session can gets your comments passed through to it and it reply in the margins.

This has completely transformed the way I'm interacting qith coding agents, please try it out.

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Post by codesoda »

arjun-mavonic wrote: post #3

Have you tried the plannatator? https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator I've been using it for few months now and I like how it let's me annotate the plan as I review and then send feedback or approve.

I hadn't seen that one. Looks great also.

When I built this I specifically didn't want to have to provide feedback and then submit it back, then open again after the agent had considered my feedback.

The way discuss is setup, it's interacting forwards and backwards on the discussion, from the web page, but within the original agent session I was having.

Very convenient to ask a question "in the document" and get a response a few seconds later, in the same document.

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Post by codesoda »

karerckor wrote: post #4

Cool. Why CLI + skill files instead of an MCP server? Seems like you'd get the stdout events and agent integration as standard tool primitives.

It's a bit of a bias of my own. It's all local, agents seem very good at running and monitoring cli outputs. They know how to follow standards, e.g. `cli-name help` to work out how to use it. The cli is self documenting this way, and they only need to learn about the commands they want to use.

No reason MCP support couldn't be added.

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Post by karerckor »

codesoda wrote: post #6
karerckor wrote: post #4

Cool. Why CLI + skill files instead of an MCP server? Seems like you'd get the stdout events and agent integration as standard tool primitives.

It's a bit of a bias of my own. It's all local, agents seem very good at running and monitoring cli outputs. They know how to follow standards, e.g. `cli-name help` to work out how to use it. The cli is self documenting this way, and they only need to learn about the commands they want to use. No reason MCP support couldn't be added.

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Re: Show HN: Discuss CLI – No more reviewing agent plans in the terminal

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Post by arjun-mavonic »

codesoda wrote: post #5
arjun-mavonic wrote: post #3

Have you tried the plannatator? https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator I've been using it for few months now and I like how it let's me annotate the plan as I review and then send feedback or approve.

I hadn't seen that one. Looks great also. When I built this I specifically didn't want to have to provide feedback and then submit it back, then open again after the agent had considered my feedback. The way discuss is setup, it's interacting forwards and backwards on the discussion, from the web page, but within the original agent session I was having. Very convenient to ask a question "in the document" and get a re…

I'll try yours as well. Thanks
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