{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Skill Tree","title":"I Haven't Given It a Soul","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/50ec1dfb\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2671,"description":"Episode 2 of The Skill Tree is a hosts-only catch-up where Neil Roberts and Nick Nisi trade notes on a fast-moving few weeks in AI coding tools. They dig into the Ralph Loop arriving as a /goal command, the personal utilities they are each building around their agents, the industry's drift from Markdown to HTML for agent output, and a genuinely unnerving npm supply-chain worm.\nThe conversation is less about any single tool and more about the workflows forming around them. Nick walks through a session-search tool he built to fuzzy-find across every Claude, Pi, and Codex transcript he has ever run, and Neil describes the Dockerized, mobile-first OpenCode setup he wired to Readwise Reader, Tailscale, and a synced Obsidian vault — a rig so pleasant to use that Nick asks whether he has accidentally built his own OpenClaw. \"I haven't given it a soul,\" Neil says.\nIn This Episode\n\nWhere looping agents like the Ralph Loop (/goal) actually help, and where the context window still gets in the way\nThe small cross-tool utilities worth building yourself: Nick's session-search tool and Neil's mobile agent stack\nWhy the AI crowd is rediscovering web development — external stylesheets, token budgets, and Cloudflare Code Mode — as agent output shifts from Markdown to HTML\nThe npm supply-chain worm Shai-Hulud, its dead man's switch, and what it does to your trust in npm install\nEpisode Chapters\n\n00:00 An Honor Just to Be Nominated\n01:02 Notion, Obsidian, and Claude Writing Your Docs\n01:57 The Ralph Loop Arrives as /goal\n07:31 Nick's Sessions Tool: Searching Every Transcript\n12:11 Walled Gardens: CLAUDE.md vs AGENTS.md\n15:10 Chasing Subagents Across Pi and OpenCode\n19:01 Broken Agent IDEs and \"Everything's Vibe Coded\"\n21:11 The TanStack Attack and Shai-Hulud\n22:03 OpenCode Go, ChatGPT, and Claude's $20 Plan\n23:08 The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML\n27:40 Constraints, Cloudflare Code Mode, and Throwaway Scripts\n31:28 npm Supply-Chain Fear and the Dead Man's Switch\n32:38 Neil's...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8gGwUeJyC9CnzImbdHEBVzHayyER5BSZCFNC734X0-U/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wYWMz/YTQyN2EyMzJiYzVl/NWU4OTg5YmFmZWRl/ZTA0ZC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}