ZeroShot
Shares rank 16 of 26 agent orchestrators by recommenders
Open source framework that runs AI coding agents through customizable review and testing workflows, with independent validators that check acceptance criteria.
Open source framework that runs AI coding agents through customizable review and testing workflows, with independent validators that check acceptance criteria.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
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Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Automates implementation, review and testing
“You can standardize your entire review flow across your team and have it match your QA requirements with zeroshot.sh”
Comment from 19 Oct 2026 on Hacker News “You can automate this entire orchestration with zeroshot.sh, mentioning it since it is relevant here.”
Comment from 19 Oct 2026 in “Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?” “automate the entire implementation, review, and acceptance testing workflow as a customizable graph”
Comment from 19 Oct 2026 in “Ask HN: How to speed up code-reviews?” Shares self-improving skills across the team
“builds and shares self-improving skills with your team so you can work with AI agents the way your most productive engineers do”
Comment from 30 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: ZeroShot: Agent session monitoring to make your team go faster” “We're building ZeroShot, an agent session monitoring tool that builds and shares self-improving skills with your team”
Comment from 30 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: ZeroShot: Agent session monitoring to make your team go faster” “it's already made some great additions to our app's skills and improved my coding agents' workflow”
Comment from 30 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: ZeroShot: Agent session monitoring to make your team go faster” Aims for feature-complete, production-grade output
“That's the next level that will truly allow no-babysitting implementatons that are feature complete and production grade.”
Comment from 10 Jan 2026 in “AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse” “ensure that the outputs are always feature complete and production-grade”
Comment from 8 Jan 2026 in “We got 78 GitHub stars within 24 hours for our next-gen AI coding tool” “due to our trust in the tool to produce senior-level, scalable code”
Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: AGI will not come from better models, it will come from meta harness” Independent validators track acceptance criteria
“feedback loops with independent validators that never lose track of the acceptance criteria”
Comment from 10 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Let your Claude Code message you on Telegram when it needs decisions” “independent validators that never lose track of the acceptance criteria”
Comment from 10 Jan 2026 in “Cursor vs. Claude Code: parallel vs. focus, not code quality”
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| Superset | 33 | 16 | 67% | 8 | 2 mo4 owners | Approved |
| Scion by Google | 28 | 32 | 47% | 8 | — | — |
| ZeroShotThis page | 7 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
16 of the 18 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“We build an open source framework that could be the solution to this problem”
“let you mechanically enforce this flow (and any other topology)”
“You can standardize your entire review flow across your team and have it match your QA requirements with zeroshot.sh”
“automate the entire implementation, review, and acceptance testing workflow as a customizable graph”
“We found that the only thing that really worked was adverserial review cycles”
“You can automate this entire orchestration with zeroshot.sh, mentioning it since it is relevant here.”
“This type of antipattern is why we build zeroshot”
“well it stops doing that!”
“We're building ZeroShot, an agent session monitoring tool that builds and shares self-improving skills with your team”
“builds and shares self-improving skills with your team so you can work with AI agents the way your most productive engineers do”
“it's already made some great additions to our app's skills and improved my coding agents' workflow”
“due to our trust in the tool to produce senior-level, scalable code”
“That's the next level that will truly allow no-babysitting implementatons that are feature complete and production grade.”
“independent validators that never lose track of the acceptance criteria”
“feedback loops with independent validators that never lose track of the acceptance criteria”
“ensure that the outputs are always feature complete and production-grade”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.