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41 by ohjeez | 10 comments on Hacker News.
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Friday, 18 September 2026
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product?
Show HN: Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product?
11 by 0x63_Problems | 11 comments on Hacker News.
I'm the co-founder of Gauge, and I built ax-check.com to quickly test how well coding agents can onboard to your product. You'll get a scorecard, specific suggested fixes, and three full coding sessions that show how agents read your site and use your product. I built this because similar checks were too noisy. Most suggested obscure technical changes that don't actually make a difference in agent experience (or AX, hence ax-check.com). This check starts by using DeepSeek 4.1 Flash to try to find key information about your product, starting from the homepage. In actual agent traffic data, we've seen that the key pages are the homepage, llms.txt, pricing, and the docs site (by traffic volume, and by influence), so we focus on those and ignore the rest. We also find that content negotiation for Markdown is legitimately helpful for agents to complete tasks faster and find what they're looking for, so the scan tests that your key pages can serve Markdown. The other key piece is that we run actual coding agents in sandboxes, and have them try to onboard to your product. You can see the full trace and watch it happen live (we kick it off fresh when you enter a new site). We surface interesting findings like hallucinated URLs, inaccurate docs instructions, or product confusion. It also detects whether the agents could complete a fully working onboarding autonomously, without being blocked by a login wall. This is still controversial, but I think finding ways to let agents safely onboard autonomously is going to be table stakes within a year for developer tools in particular. The whole site is agent-friendly itself! You can generally just talk to your coding agent about ax-check.com and it can do the rest. Would really appreciate any feedback to make this useful.
11 by 0x63_Problems | 11 comments on Hacker News.
I'm the co-founder of Gauge, and I built ax-check.com to quickly test how well coding agents can onboard to your product. You'll get a scorecard, specific suggested fixes, and three full coding sessions that show how agents read your site and use your product. I built this because similar checks were too noisy. Most suggested obscure technical changes that don't actually make a difference in agent experience (or AX, hence ax-check.com). This check starts by using DeepSeek 4.1 Flash to try to find key information about your product, starting from the homepage. In actual agent traffic data, we've seen that the key pages are the homepage, llms.txt, pricing, and the docs site (by traffic volume, and by influence), so we focus on those and ignore the rest. We also find that content negotiation for Markdown is legitimately helpful for agents to complete tasks faster and find what they're looking for, so the scan tests that your key pages can serve Markdown. The other key piece is that we run actual coding agents in sandboxes, and have them try to onboard to your product. You can see the full trace and watch it happen live (we kick it off fresh when you enter a new site). We surface interesting findings like hallucinated URLs, inaccurate docs instructions, or product confusion. It also detects whether the agents could complete a fully working onboarding autonomously, without being blocked by a login wall. This is still controversial, but I think finding ways to let agents safely onboard autonomously is going to be table stakes within a year for developer tools in particular. The whole site is agent-friendly itself! You can generally just talk to your coding agent about ax-check.com and it can do the rest. Would really appreciate any feedback to make this useful.
Thursday, 17 September 2026
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human
Show HN: Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human
7 by skeptrune | 3 comments on Hacker News.
hey, i'm nick (@skeptrune on X). i have been using ai for a lot of things i'm not an expert in and thought it would be nice to try and buy paid skills for helping it accomplish those tasks more efficiently. for example, redlining contracts, creating ai generated videos, different website designs, and more. curious to see if this resonates with folks here. i figure a more engineering'y audience that's ai coding-agent forward would have similar problems to what inspired me to make this
7 by skeptrune | 3 comments on Hacker News.
hey, i'm nick (@skeptrune on X). i have been using ai for a lot of things i'm not an expert in and thought it would be nice to try and buy paid skills for helping it accomplish those tasks more efficiently. for example, redlining contracts, creating ai generated videos, different website designs, and more. curious to see if this resonates with folks here. i figure a more engineering'y audience that's ai coding-agent forward would have similar problems to what inspired me to make this
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Saturday, 12 September 2026
New top story on Hacker News: An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
115 by routelastresort | 30 comments on Hacker News.
115 by routelastresort | 30 comments on Hacker News.
Friday, 11 September 2026
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