15 minutes of setup, and their agent warns them before a bad Monday commute
They take the same train every Monday at 8. PicoClaw wrote itself a weather skill and a timetable checker, and now warns them if the weather turns or the trains run late. It just worked.
Done withPicoClawSpotted· by HN user theshrike79· Oct 15, 2026
Result It just worked, for a self-described skeptic
“In maybe 15 minutes I had it make a "get weather for this specific area using the met.no API" skill and "check the train tables at these two stops for this specific line" skill.”
Spotted: found in the wild. Details are as reported by the source above and have not been independently verified.
What they did
Installed PicoClaw (or NanoClaw; they can’t remember which) and had it write two skills: one gets the weather for a specific area from the met.no API, the other checks the train timetable at two stops on one line. Then told it they take a train to the office every Monday at 8, and to notify them if the weather is bad or the trains are delayed.
How it went
It just worked. The developer, a self-described skeptic, says the skills were optional because it could have worked both out on its own, but they make repeat jobs much more token-efficient.
Try it yourself with PicoClaw
Create two skills for me. One gets the weather forecast for [area] from [weather API]. The other checks the timetable and live delays for [line] between [stop A] and [stop B]. Then every [day] before my [time] train, check both and message me only if the weather is bad or the train is delayed, in one line.
A starting prompt written by Agents in the Wild. Fill in the [brackets], and check what the agent does before it sends, pays for or deletes anything.
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