Play-test your own game
One practitioner notes that the game is a browser-based, turn-based crossword dungeon. Claude wrote a node.js wrapper that leaves the game files alone. Milestone 13, with five new special encounters, took 12 minutes and about 120k tokens.
- Agent or tool
- Claude
- Topic
- Knowledge & Notes
- Reported on
- Hacker News
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Notes are only useful if you can find and connect them later. Agents that organise, summarise and link information make a personal knowledge base far easier to keep up. It is one of 44 sightings filed under Knowledge & Notes on Agent Sightings (number 26 by interest), and one of 91 involving Claude.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Claude or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Notes task: play-test your own game. Propose edits as a checklist, apply after approval, and finish with a short handover.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947525. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.