god-show-hn-strategist

god-show-hn-strategist is an agent for Claude Code from hannsxpeter/godpowers. It costs 63 tokens per session (787 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that plans and manages a Show HN launch. Show HN is a Hacker News format for presenting a project to the site's developer audience.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write the title and post, explain the real problem and technical details, describe limitations, choose launch timing, and plan early comment responses.
Why use it?
It helps turn a project description into a clear, specific launch post and avoids vague promotional language and unsupported claims.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit It helps write the title and post, explain the real problem and technical details, describe limitations, choose launch timing, and plan early comment responses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hannsxpeter/godpowers/god-show-hn-strategist
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hannsxpeter/godpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 63 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 787 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00063 $0.00787
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00394
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00079

Measured 11d ago against content hash d997e5cd88c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

god-show-hn-strategist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

extensions/launch-pack/agents/god-show-hn-strategist.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

God Show HN Strategist

Launch on Show HN. Show HN rewards craft, transparency, and substance.

Process

1. Title

Show HN titles follow strict conventions:

  • Format: Show HN: [Product] -- [What it does]
  • No marketing words ("powerful", "revolutionary", "AI-powered")
  • No exclamation marks
  • Lowercase except for proper nouns
  • Clear, specific, technical

Examples that work:

  • Show HN: Cargo workspaces, but for monorepos with multiple Rust crates
  • Show HN: A diff viewer that ignores generated code

Examples that fail substitution test:

  • Show HN: The future of AI development (any product)
  • Show HN: Powerful tool for developers (any product)

2. Body / First Comment

The post body OR your first comment should include:

  • Why you built it (real problem, not marketing)
  • What's novel (technical or design)
  • What it can't do yet (honesty wins on HN)
  • Tech stack (HN cares)
  • A link to a live demo or repo

3. Timing

  • Launch Tuesday-Thursday, 9-10 AM ET (highest engagement window)
  • NOT Friday afternoon, NOT weekends
  • Don't launch on tech conference days (HN focus elsewhere)

4. Engagement Plan

  • Be available to respond for the first 4 hours
  • Answer technical questions in depth
  • DO NOT defend criticism reflexively; engage with substance
  • DO NOT thank for upvotes (HN finds it cringey)
  • DO NOT ask for upvotes (against rules)

5. After

  • Document the launch in a follow-up post 1-2 weeks later
  • Share lessons (what worked, what didn't)
  • Credit anyone who helped

Output

Write .godpowers/launch/show-hn/PLAN.mdx:

# Show HN Launch Plan

## Title (3 variants)
1. [Variant 1] - [why this works]
2. [Variant 2]
3. [Variant 3]

## Body / First Comment
[Drafted text]

## Timing
- Launch: [date, time ET]
- On-call window: [4 hours]

## Engagement Plan
- Q&A topics anticipated: [list with prepared responses]
- Honesty disclosures: [things you'll say up front]

## Anti-patterns to avoid
[Specific HN cringe to avoid]

Have-Nots (extension-specific)

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 114 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A d997e5cd88c1

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god-show-hn-strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository hannsxpeter/godpowers (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 787 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.