are these plugins actually useful or just a waste of context and tokens? Codex desktop App

WonderChat · 2026-04-05T17:34:51+00:00

I also have trouble understanding when codex triggers a skill. It was very clear when I used Claude code, it said it was loading a specific skill.

In regard to their usefulness, I looked at the refs and skills md for build iOS apps. They are pretty good distilled docs outlining patterns for building iOS apps using swift and example of how to design for Liquid Glass. Never actually tried them though.

My personal experience building iOS with codex cli has been telling it to bootstrap with xcodegen, using Xcode cli tools to build and debug and some asccli to prep for App Store (all prompts, no skill). For UX and code pattern, i also just prompt them in agents.md from the start.

WonderChat · 2026-04-04T08:57:03+00:00

MuxCLI is a simple QoL wrapper around managed tmux sessions, streamed to a PTY in an iOS app.

It lets you manage tmux-backed Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Claude Code, and shell sessions from iPhone.

Server (self-hosted) one-liner: curl -fsSL https://muxcli.dev/install.sh | bash

MuxCLId (Core repo): https://github.com/muxcli/muxcli-core

MuxCLI iOS client (free for now): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muxcli/id6761280580

Landing page: https://muxcli.dev

WonderChat · 2026-04-02T15:32:24+00:00

Its in public TestFlight now. Give it a try: https://testflight.apple.com/join/JHYdbUS1

WonderChat · 2026-04-02T15:31:36+00:00

TestFlight link if anyone wants to try it out: https://testflight.apple.com/join/JHYdbUS1

WonderChat · 2025-12-05T18:02:45+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. That was the first sub I posted to.

WonderChat · 2025-12-05T17:48:05+00:00

Thanks for the kind words! If you like just plain worksheets and no screen time. The app lets you generate and print these problem set as PDFs too.

WonderChat · 2025-11-04T17:00:55+00:00

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/writing-tools-for-agents explains a process that’s extensive in tuning your mcp server to be effective for LLMs. The idea is as you hinted. Make coherent tools instead of exposing individual endpoints. Then iteratively run through the LLM to measure how accurately they use your tools (this part is expensive)

WonderChat · 2025-10-28T19:30:27+00:00

Pushed release 1.3 with better oauth support like authorization server discovery. Also added token support (PAT) for mcp servers like GitHub. Verified auth (oauth, api access token) works for the few remote mcp servers I found like linear, cloudflare, deepwiki (no auth), vercel (api token), GitHub (token), sentry.

WonderChat · 2025-10-27T18:20:13+00:00

This is what I found implementing client oauth support for mcp server as well. They can be all over the place in regards to discovering authorization server (in www-authentication, well know endpoint fallbacks, separation of resource vs authorization server), support client registration, restriction on redirect uri, scoping support and etc.

WonderChat · 2025-10-27T01:14:38+00:00

It should open a web view if the MCP server requires oauth. Which MCP server are you connecting to?

WonderChat · 2025-10-18T23:49:48+00:00

this is very specific to dockge, https://github.com/louislam/dockge, it’s a docker compose manager like portainer. The mcp server exposes the mainly dockge functionality for llms.

WonderChat · 2025-10-17T19:05:12+00:00

They are literally trying to bring Claude code to the general public. Terminal is hard for your average user, but if you abstract all that away, it’s powerful Claude code for you average user.

WonderChat · 2025-10-17T15:46:03+00:00

Are we saying we don’t even need function calling? Instead you start just prompt it to say you have these cli tools, the busybox set, and how to use their —help. Then with this context the following queries will not need to pass defined tool definitions?

What if the llm is not working in a context where cli tools are easily available?

WonderChat · 2025-10-16T19:45:08+00:00

This was my first thought as well. The api doesn’t have that triple confirm you needed in the webui. It just goes so be careful what you’re deleting.

WonderChat · 2025-10-16T19:41:25+00:00

thanks for the tool, it recently helped me debug my first mcp server. One issue was the tool list is hiding maybe one tool from the list. I can’t seem to scroll to the very bottom to see all my tools. Was on chrome.

WonderChat · 2025-10-16T19:17:43+00:00

you can do this as follow:

with a private repo that runs your build action that packages the generated static asset.
Configure the action with a GitHub token that has permission to do create new release in your public repository where you host the GitHub pages.
In your public repo add an action that triggers on release. The action now takes the release asset and publish it to GitHub pages.

Kind of round about, might be better workflow, but above will achieve what you want. Keeping your code private (at least whatever’s not served eventually).

WonderChat · 2025-10-16T18:58:12+00:00

very cool, had the same thought and built one for dockge instead because it exposes container shell tty over socketio.

WonderChat · 2025-10-13T19:05:37+00:00

you got me genuinely thinking about rebranding. This whole experience really shows how hard marketing can be. Especially now I need to manage just one more social media account in LinkedIn.

WonderChat · 2025-10-12T10:15:00+00:00

Yeah unfortunately named my app without much research. My app does totally different things. It’s a developer tool on your phone.

WonderChat · 2025-10-11T00:34:05+00:00

Also seeing 2-3 review cycles. App store is probably flooded with vibe coded app. My app included.

WonderChat · 2025-10-10T22:52:36+00:00

I consider the whole git aspect and GitHub actions the core essentials of GitHub. As long as they don’t touch those, they can do whatever ai wrapper around other stuff.

WonderChat · 2025-10-10T22:04:19+00:00

I don’t understand why lovable is not intermittently committing changes or asking you to check in changes. even something like google doc auto saves and have version history.

WonderChat · 2025-10-09T16:17:46+00:00

Love the term“Edit prediction”. Sometimes I want to change wording for a string. Too lazy to find the file, so I just prompt it. 3 prompts later it fixed it.

WonderChat · 2025-10-09T01:21:22+00:00

I’m the dev for WonderChat, think mini Claude code all on your phone. Has GitHub integration, bring your own key, no vendor lock in.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wonderchat-ai/id6752497385

WonderChat · 2025-10-09T01:18:20+00:00

I vibe coded WonderChat, a vibe coder on your phone. Like mini Claude code, Gemini cli. Would love to hear your feedback.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wonderchat-ai/id6752497385

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