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xxodn348 about 4 hours ago 34 commentsRead Article on github.com

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Destiny is the Claude Code's plugin that gives you a real fortune reading.

Type /destiny to see today's destiny!

It uses the actual classical East Asian astrology system. You enter your birthday once, then /destiny gives you today's reading anytime.

Two layers, kept honest:

1. The numbers (your eight-character birth chart, today's day pillar, the hexagram for the moment, five-element relationships) are computed by a Python script. Same person + same day = identical output. You can verify against any traditional calendar source.

2. The prose (today's stars, character sketch, life arc, advice) is written by Claude, applying centuries-old reading conventions to that fixed data. Not LLM-hallucinated horoscope.

If you have fun with it, a star would mean a lot.

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hansmayer•about 3 hours ago

Since you seem to be mentioning 'destiny', 'life arc' and 'advice' -it may be wise to put in some kind of a legal disclaimer for your own sake -- the use of LLM toys for advice about life and similar have led to some really bad outcomes, even suicides as we know now.

lanyard-textile•29 minutes ago

If you act like a doctor and someone gets hurt from your acting, that's the main trouble.

I am not sure the same standard would apply for a fortune teller :)

xodn348•about 3 hours ago

fair points. I will take a look at it

sudosteph•about 3 hours ago

I am resisting the urge to be very snarky.

But how do you know that Claude's hallucinated horoscopes are any less accurate than traditional techniques? Have you A/B tested them?

mikestorrent•about 1 hour ago

I once did an exercise to review the previous week's horoscope and grade each sign on how closely it corresponded to my actual week. I found no consistency whatsoever, so I'm not just miscategorized into the wrong sign, but in fact none of them had any predictive value. It might be fun to broaden that out to other sources of horoscope than my local Coffee News, maybe a better mystic is what I need

ggnore7452•about 1 hour ago

Isn't that the memory files are loading by default?

awakeasleep•about 3 hours ago

Could you flesh out the installation instructions a little more? I haven't used the plugin marketplace yet, and don't have a /plugin command.

Claude itself is not able to tell me how to install it.

svachalek•about 3 hours ago

This is for Claude Code. It's not hard to install/run Claude Code but it might be a little intimidating if you're not used to command lines.

I think in the regular Claude app, you can set up something like this as a "project" with a custom prompt. Claude might be able to pull the prompting from Github and convert it.

awakeasleep•about 2 hours ago

There is a claude code in the claude gui as well, i think everyone must be saying to use the tui.

xodn348•about 3 hours ago

Just edited readme as well

_pdp_•about 2 hours ago

Looks like a supply chain risk to me.

xodn348•about 2 hours ago

I did not understood the meaning of your words.

chaqchase•about 3 hours ago

Curious what prompt boundaries you're using. It's the kind of thing that's fun until it quietly invents details.

xodn348•about 3 hours ago

I actually did not use prompts here. It is actual calculation from the python lunar and it cast the result to LLM which you use. The LLM has the old books such as giving you your fortune following lunar year calculation. Have a fun with it!

chakintosh•about 2 hours ago

I thought anthropic is tightening usage but it seems people have nothing to do with their tokens …

xodn348•about 2 hours ago

I'm doing what people wants. Thanks!

tomaytotomato•about 3 hours ago

I would recommend you consider a Claude code hook, you could then specify a particular part of the agent lifecycle to invoke the fortune as an alternative to manual invocation of the skill.

You could do it on `SessionStart` to give a horoscope.

I am looking at making a skill to test random programming knowledge, so I don't forget that an Integer is 32bits (at least in Java)

xodn348•about 3 hours ago

Auto-run on session start (optional) added. Please check it out!

mavelikara•about 1 hour ago

Love to see the evals on this one!

Balvarez•about 2 hours ago

for what it's worth I think this is fun. I'm not into this sort of thing but it's fun none the less.

xodn348•about 2 hours ago

This was what I was targeting. Thanks

treexs•about 3 hours ago

interesting, but I really wonder how big the audience is of people wanting to know their fortune while claude coding within the claude code interface

xodn348•about 3 hours ago

This is my fun project! Not a profitable entity. Thanks

throwatdem12311•about 2 hours ago

Yes this is exactly what we need — the hallucinating dunning-Krueger inducing psychosis machine spewing made up pseudoscientific nonsense. Bravo.

xodn348•about 2 hours ago

haha great prose

throwatdem12311•about 2 hours ago

People have been goaded into killing themselves or others by LLMs so I don’t take kindly to third rate hucksters abusing the behaviours that lead to it with these tools for a laugh.

Jtarii•about 2 hours ago

I don't think it's that deep.

Seems like a bit of an overexageration to a bit of fun.

xodn348•about 2 hours ago

Hope you enjoy your life and time.

babblingfish•about 3 hours ago

feature request: marriage palace built using two user profiles

xodn348•about 3 hours ago

/destiny compat <partner birth> <city> <m|f>

do it now.

neonstatic•about 2 hours ago

Now the call center cranks will have even better scripts to read. Perfect...

xodn348•about 2 hours ago

Let me have fun with it. Thanks

neonstatic•about 1 hour ago

I'm not trying to spoil it!