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1997roylee

Hi everyone, I built Ponytrail, a small CLI and bundled agent skill for making AI coding sessions easier to inspect and undo.

The problem I kept hitting: git diff shows what changed, but not why the agent changed it, what outcome it expected, what check it planned to run, or how to roll back one specific action. Final summaries are often too coarse, especially after a long coding session.

Ponytrail adds a small local trail around file mutations. Before an agent creates, edits, moves, deletes, formats, or generates files, it records a pre-change snapshot: action, purpose, reason, files, expected outcome, verification plan, rollback path

After the edit, it records a post-change snapshot with what changed, what checks ran, and the result.

Everything is stored locally under .pony-trail/ as JSONL, session trees, and small before/after file copies. It does not replace git. It is more like per-action intent and rollback context for agent work.

Re:A chat-style site for Hacker News trends on Sunday February 22, 2026 @01:19AM (#47108718)
Hi HN, I built a chatroom UI that pulls/syncs Hacker News data to help track what’s going on today/this week without screening.

Built with prompting only (0 hand-written code). Would love feedback.

Demo: https://yc-chat-seven.vercel.app GitHub: https://github.com/1997roylee/yc-chat

Thanks for taking a look.

Dump Radix UI!
Thanks for supporting.
Agree.
Fixed.
I have enabled the infinite scroll feature. You can now test it now.
Updated it.
Thanks for share ur suggestions, I will carefully review each point and take them into consideration.
I should reduce the spacing
Understand.
Yup, I jts realize it... Cannot change the subject again
Thanks
Good to know it.
I updated it.
I should rename the subject to "Enhancing Mobile Readability for Hacker News"
Jts wanna make it easy to read on mobile version.
Got it.
Let me change the link behaviour.
Thanks for ur information!
Yup, I do think so the icons waste the space. For hashtags of authors, jts wanna highlight it.
Most of the ppl dont like the spacing, I will reduce the padding.
Let me fix it now!
I will update the readme, wait me for a minute thanks.
Thanks for your information, I think I will focus on working for mobile version.

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