/brag — memorialize something clever, fast
Builds one deep-dive showcase page about the subject and links it into a running index. Treat it
like /idea: capture quickly, ask only when blocked, never spiral into a rabbit hole.
Output location (resolve once, up front)
- Default: a local
showcase/directory at the repo root —showcase/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>.htmlplus ashowcase/index.htmlthat lists every page. - If the project defines a showcase/demo output another way (a
SHOWCASE_DIRenv var, ashowcase/.config, or an existingshowcase//demo/dir), use that instead. - Deploying to a live site is optional and separate — see step 6. Never assume a deploy target.
Steps
Take the subject.
<subject>is the thing being bragged about. Infer a shortslug(kebab-case) and a working title from it.Clarify only if needed (0–2 questions, then stop). Ask only when you can't build a good page without the answer — e.g. what makes it notable, where the code/artifact lives, or who it's for (a teammate vs. a public demo). Skip straight to building if context already answers these. Don't interview for polish.
Gather the substance (read-only, quick). Pull the concrete details the page needs:
git log --oneline -10andgit diff --stat(andgit showon the relevant commit) to see what actually changed.- Read the key file(s) the subject touches — enough to describe the mechanism honestly, not a
full audit. Prefer
path:linespecifics over hand-waving. - Note a genuine before/after or the problem it solves, if there is one.
Handle the screenshot. A showcase page wants one visual.
- Look for an existing image tied to the subject: a recent file under
screenshots/,docs/,assets/, or the repo's image dirs; an artifact the work just produced. - If the subject is a running UI, a browser tool is available, and you know the URL, offer to capture one.
- Otherwise ask for an image path, but don't block on it — use a captioned placeholder and note a screenshot can be added later.
- Copy any image into the showcase dir (e.g.
showcase/assets/<slug>.<ext>) and reference it relatively — never hotlink an external or local absolute path.
- Look for an existing image tied to the subject: a recent file under
Build the page. Write a single self-contained HTML file (inline CSS, no external requests) to
<output>/<date>-<slug>.html, in order:- Title + one-line summary of what it is.
- Why it's impressive — sell the win; this is a showcase. Keep it true — every claim must
hold up. (For a deliberately neutral technical write-up instead, that's
/write-post.) - How it works — the mechanism, with
path:lineor a short code snippet where it helps. - The screenshot (or placeholder).
- Related — 1–3 existing showcase pages whose slug/tags genuinely overlap this subject (scan the index; skip the section if none).
- A small footer: date, and the commit SHA it describes if there is one.
Then update
<output>/index.html: add/refresh this page's card (title, date, one-liner, thumb), newest first. Create the index if it doesn't exist.
Offer to publish (optional, never automatic). If the project has a configured way to publish the showcase (a deploy script, a
SHOWCASE_DEPLOY_CMD, a publish skill like a/mock-style HTTP PUT), offer to run it and show the resulting URL. Otherwise say the page is local and stop. Do not invent a deploy path or push anywhere unprompted.Confirm and get out of the way. Print the file path (and URL if deployed), offer to open it. Don't propose follow-up work — the point was to memorialize, not to start a new task.
Sell it, but keep it true
- Lead with impact — but every claim has to hold up. Impressive-and-accurate, never impressive-and-invented. If the clever part has a real caveat, a confident one-line "known limit" reads better than a claim that falls apart on inspection.
- Read-only except for the showcase files (and a copied screenshot). Never edit the code you're bragging about, and never deploy without the explicit offer in step 6.