# ZeroShot

7 Hacker News commenters recommended ZeroShot and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Open source framework that runs AI coding agents through customizable review and testing workflows, with independent validators that check acceptance criteria.

## Why people recommend it

- Automates implementation, review and testing (3 comments): "You can standardize your entire review flow across your team and have it match your QA requirements with zeroshot.sh" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50155910)) "You can automate this entire orchestration with zeroshot.sh, mentioning it since it is relevant here." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50155785)) "automate the entire implementation, review, and acceptance testing workflow as a customizable graph" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50155892))
- Shares self-improving skills across the team (3 comments): "builds and shares self-improving skills with your team so you can work with AI agents the way your most productive engineers do" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114006)) "We're building ZeroShot, an agent session monitoring tool that builds and shares self-improving skills with your team" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116460)) "it's already made some great additions to our app's skills and improved my coding agents' workflow" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113501))
- Aims for feature-complete, production-grade output (3 comments): "That's the next level that will truly allow no-babysitting implementatons that are feature complete and production grade." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46565269)) "ensure that the outputs are always feature complete and production-grade" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545750)) "due to our trust in the tool to produce senior-level, scalable code" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644822))
- Independent validators track acceptance criteria (2 comments): "feedback loops with independent validators that never lose track of the acceptance criteria" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46565266)) "independent validators that never lose track of the acceptance criteria" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46565267))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "ZeroShot", https://hackerapproved.com/p/zeroshot/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).