Vibe coding is great! But we don't need to build anything from scratch.

Source: Dev.to

Overview

That’s why I built a “Don’t Reinvent the Wheel” skill, programming‑advisor. It triggers whenever I say things like “I want to build a…”, “Help me create…”, or “Can you code…”. Before Claude writes a single line of code, it searches for existing solutions and shows me a comparison table.

Example query

“I want to build a Hacker News CLI to browse top stories from terminal.”

🔍 Existing Solutions Found

NPM Packages

• hackernews-cli – Browse HN from terminal | 200+ stars
• haxor-news – Full‑featured HN CLI in Python | 3.8K stars
• hn-cli – Minimal HN reader | 150+ stars

Open Source Tools

• circumflex – Beautiful HN terminal client | 1K+ stars
• clx – TUI for Hacker News | 400+ stars

📊 Build vs Buy Comparison

💡 Recommendation

Install circumflex or haxor-news. Both are mature, well‑maintained, and include features you’ll likely forget to implement:

• Collapsible comments
• Vim keybindings
• Color themes
• Story filtering
• Offline caching

I installed circumflex in 10 seconds. It does everything I wanted plus features I didn’t know I needed.

Install the skill

# Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add gaupoit/programming-advisor

# Install the plugin
/plugin install programming-advisor

Try the demo project

git clone https://github.com/gaupoit/dont-reinvent-the-wheel-demo.git
cd dont-reinvent-the-wheel-demo
claude

Happy coding / vibing!