Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
- ID
- 29138
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 26 Sep 2026, 11:56 PM
- Fetched
- 28 Sep 2026, 1:59 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 4.5
- Created
- 28 Sep 2026, 2:00 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_codersai_ml_learners
What happened
Drawgent is a project on the Tangled code host described only as a "coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas," written mostly in Rust (68.6%) with a JavaScript front end (27.2%) and small CSS, Makefile, Nix, Dockerfile and HTML portions. The repo page carries no description and no README content in the scraped text: 26 commits on main, 2 branches, 0 tags, 10 stars and 1 fork, with the latest commits landing 2-4 hours before the snapshot. Its main signal is community interest rather than documentation, at 171 points and 45 comments on Hacker News.
Why it matters
You cannot evaluate the architecture from this page: there is no description, README, or setup instructions in the text, and 10 stars/1 fork means there is no community track record to lean on either. The only substantive artifact available is the 45-comment HN thread, so read that first and treat the repo as an unvetted experiment before spending a sprint on a canvas-based agent workflow. Concretely: if you are weighing agent interfaces, the Rust-plus-JS split suggests a native agent core with a web canvas UI, which is a different integration shape from terminal or file-tree agents you may already run.
Discussion angle
Ask the room whether a shared visual canvas is a real advantage over file-and-terminal agents for planning and review, or just a nicer demo surface - and note that the repo page itself gives no README or description, so anyone claiming to know how it works is going off the HN thread, not the source.