Person/Simon Willison/Blog/26/02/Introducing Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built
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- 2026-02-10 Tue
Introducing Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built
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- Person/Simon Willison introduces two new CLI tools focused on agent demonstration workflows.
- Person/Simon Willison/GitHub/showboat turns terminal session recordings into videos so coding agents can produce reproducible demos of what they built.
- Person/Simon Willison/GitHub/rodney gives agents a browser automation path via Chrome DevTools so they can operate a real browser, not just take static screenshots.
- This feels like a practical extension of the broader shift toward agent-first developer tooling: less "describe what happened", more "show the run artifact".
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