Show HN: Homie – a chat-voice personality layer for coding agents

Category: devtools

Tags: ai-agents, prompt-engineering, developer-experience, claude-code, personality

Score: 4.8/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 3, Documentation: 8, Utility: 4)

Homie is a prompt-based personality layer that changes the chat voice of coding agents (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Pi) to a blunt, friend-like tone across three intensity levels, while keeping technical answers identical. It's interesting as a clean example of system-prompt engineering packaged with multi-agent plugin hooks, but functionally it's a thin wrapper around a single prompt file.

Target audience: backend devs, AI coding agent users, developer experience engineers

Repository: https://github.com/prashanthgit19/homie · JavaScript · MIT · 5 stars

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