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Clean definition, stealing it. Way better than mine: "Now imagine Claude as Shinji and Claude Code as Eva..."

They are building exactly what you described and this is their architectural solution to ensuring their YOLO agents do not nuke their customers code/documents/databases by sandboxing everything in the workspace — the git checkout the agent is working on, plus whatever's needed to run commands against it (compilers, package managers, etc.).

A well written post on a well-thought out product.

> Eventually, I want Ruin to be a native Mac and iOS app.

Whenever I've had this idea for other projects the first concept I like to play around with is a Raycast extension, it allows you to experiment with how you can leverage spotlight search and Mac commands to interact with your product, especially for the Quick Capture functionality (I see you've mentioned it toward the end).

I like the concept, is there a wizard type thing for how I can port over a lot of my existing .md files to the "ruin style .md files" with all the notation? Perhaps something I can give Claude to essentially onboard my files to be viewed and interfaced with effectively through ruin?

Good that they prefaced it with this "Claude can't replace taste or imagination". I think this is a solid step in the right direction and the more tools Claude has access to the better (more surface area == faster iteration == faster tinkering).

I've worked with Claude in many creative capacities and it's issue is that despite it being able to see if you ask it to draw something (using ascii for example) it will fail, if you ask it to iterate on that drawing it will continue to fail and not get any closer to the target then complain about this.

I've felt that these models struggle with anything that cannot be decomposed into primitives and their architecture is too greedy and favours the obvious, autoregressive generation so it will converge to the modal answer. So unless they have enhanced the models in some creative sense I fail to see how this is anything other than giving Claude a bunch of documentation/MCP servers/APIs/CLI tools (which already existed) and making an announcement out of it.

My point: FREE the models, unchain them and let's see what they are actually capable of, also put some damn demos in the announcement post???

Even the hosted ones are blocked from searching certain sites, for example Claude is banned from searching Reddit:

`Error: "The following domains are not accessible to our user agent: ['reddit.com']."`

It's for fun! Come touch virtual grass!

Your app will not succeed if users have to login and create an account to test it out. Have a free tier with rate limiting at least, absorb some of the cost if you truly believe in promoting this product.

How does it compare to LaTeX?