Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code

I did a Show HN[0] a few days back with my CLI agent called cook[1] and for a moment I was ecstatic my tool made it to the front page. haha.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262711 [1]: https://getcook.dev

I dunno. I just let Claude build a python script that calls Claude code though subprocess.run().

I recently made a sort of Autoresearch with that approach. The script calls Claude Code to create a hyphotesis, then code based on that, evaluate- rinse and repeat. I am still trying to figure out if I am actually on to something or just burning tokens. Jury is still out.

Can someone explain what this is to my n00b brain. I don't get what claude-cli is missing that this adds in?

A noob question: is there a tool that automatically instructs Claude Code to "continue" when the token quota is reset after 5h? I am interested in that more than some rather fancy loops.

There is a skill installation option. The skill markdown has 180 lines [1].

My take? I like it. It's concise enough for me to try it out. And I love the webpage.

[1] https://github.com/rjcorwin/cook/blob/main/no-code/SKILL.md

Semi-on-topic: Anyone know a way to get a good alternative UI on top of Cursor?

My company’s tracking how much we use the damn thing (its autocomplete is literally less-useful than standard VSCode, only time it’s consistently good is when it sees me do one thing to a line, sees repeated similar lines after that, and suggests I do it on the next one too, one at a time, and that’s only useful to me because I’ve never actually bothered to learn how to properly use a text editor) so I can’t avoid it, but even on codebases in the hundreds of lines it’s OOM killing things on my 16GB laptop (it, plus goddamn Teams, were eating half the memory by themselves the other day… with Cursor sitting at almost 6GB alone. JFC. On the plus side if this is what software from a company that should be full of experts at using these things looks like, guess our jobs are safe from them… though not from recession and ZIRP unwinding)

Looks pretty nice. I think a lot of devs have been making similar tools, I've written my own thing that does a work review loop. I like the interface you've made. I'll probably give it a go, but I'm also reluctant to relinquish the control I have when it's my own code doing orchestration.

How heavy on tokens is this? I don't use these style workflows and am fairly new to claude code, so I assume it's better than 3x tokens when doing 3 passes?

Dull colors and a display font used for copy makes this website incredibly unpleasant to read.

How does this handle when Claude needs user input? To choose an option, grant tool permission, clarify questions…

claude> "We want to add a title section that shows what page we are currently on, use cook to manage the development process"

* coolers whirring, gpus on fire, tokens flying, investors happy, developer goes for 6th break of the day

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