Show HN: Surface skill for HTML pages a coding agent watches and reacts to

Category: devtools

Tags: agent-tool, ephemeral-ui, rust

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 5, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Surface is a pattern and skill for coding agents to generate ephemeral, task-specific web pages that agents autonomously react to, enabling rich interactions like drag-to-rank or annotated floor plans outside chat. It shifts the cost of bespoke UI to the cost of asking, making highly tailored interactions disposable and cheap. The project is interesting for its novel approach to bridging agent output and human input beyond text chat.

Target audience: backend devs, AI/ML engineers, devops

Repository: https://github.com/aac/surface · Rust · Apache-2.0

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