Show HN: Quibbler – A critic for your coding agent that learns what you want
114 points - last Friday at 12:43 AM
Sourcep0w3n3d
last Friday at 7:32 AM
In other words, the Quibbler siphons wrackspurts away from your code.
mouse_
last Friday at 12:03 PM
There's so many agents to handle my agents, I'm gonna need agents for my agent agents soon.
Cool concept, but I picture Quibbler as an off-brand Batman villain.
stacktraceyo
last Saturday at 8:12 AM
Can the same concept be used for non coding tasks?
balleddog
last Friday at 8:54 AM
Is an anthropic api key really necessary? A major roadblock for taking a test drive. Already have a Claud Max subscription but an anthropic api key still need at least 5$/mon extra.
epiccoleman
last Friday at 2:27 PM
I really want Anthropic to let me make an API token that pulls from the same pool of usage that my Pro subscription does with the official clients. It would be cool to be able to run experiments with alternate clients and automation and stuff without having to go swipe the card at the ol' API token refilling station.
asn0
last Friday at 11:23 AM
You could use the prompts in the code to create a Claude Code sub-agent[1], which would do the same thing without an API key
1. https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/sub-agents
threecheese
last Saturday at 7:42 PM
How would you invoke the subagent? Can a HookResponse cause a subagent to be invoked, to perform analysis on the action taken and then inject that back into the main loop?
Or would the hook invoke another instance of claude code?
I just read through the hook docs and I’m a bit fuzzy on the bidirectionality of it.
thenthenthen
last Friday at 9:36 AM
Sounds like video streaming services…
selfawareMammal
last Friday at 7:51 AM
An agent's agent?
hikarudo
last Friday at 9:15 AM
A gentleman's gentleman!
oneandonley1
last Friday at 2:15 PM
Sounds like a wip to me, "do it better or get punished"
agarttha
last Friday at 5:46 PM
Replace the middle manager
etherio
last Friday at 4:26 AM
hey HN! happy to answer any questions
this kind of tool is especially useful in longer running tasks to enforce your intent without having to check in on your agent all the time
anonymous908213
last Friday at 4:52 AM
Can users stack Quibblers, so Quibbler 2 corrects Quibbler 1 if, say, it fabricates an issue in the code it's reviewing? If so, have you found an optimum number of Quibblers for the Quibbler stack? Also, might users form a Quibbler council such that multiple Quibblers review the same thing and form a consensus before proceeding?
Balinares
last Friday at 7:54 AM
I love the pixel-perfect precision with which this comment is straddling the Poe's Law line.
That aside I also love the concept of Quibbler Council and I'd get a kick out of seeing it in action.
sheepscreek
last Friday at 12:29 PM
MoQs - Mixture of Quibblers? Would be convenient to have them run on dedicated FGPAs. Then they can facilitate near real-time quibbing at the network level across all packets.
anonymous908213
last Friday at 4:46 AM
But who polices the vibe police?
Brajeshwar
last Friday at 5:48 AM
“Well, who’s gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors?” — Enemy of the State (Movie)
qq66
last Friday at 4:43 AM
> We’ve found Quibbler useful in preventing agents from: 1) fabricating results without running commands
What a world we've created for ourselves
N_Lens
last Friday at 6:40 AM
Next step is critics for the critics.
CoastalCoder
last Friday at 11:03 AM
Until they reach critical mass.
cjonas
last Friday at 3:33 AM
Vibeception