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starcalleryisss··on Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
That makes sense but I guess the biggest rub for me is… do my existing skills become contradictory or overlapping with what rowboat is doing… I guess I’d want to be able to actually read the skills rowboat employs and marry them with mine so that there’s no double work and there’s an opportunity for rowboats features to be additively beneficial.

Will take you up on that! Thank you!

starcalleryisss··on Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
Looks great. Is there an onboarding/xfer workflow from an existing Claude code harness?

I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time building my wiki, feature plans, retrospectives, client overviews, meta overview, log, skills, commands and the barrier to trying a new command surface or agent is always “will I maintain my edge”.

Or am I misunderstanding? Is it that I would just spawn windows to that existing harness and get to harvest additive features/data from rowboat on top?

Edit - my typical approach would be to scrape out features from a tool like this to bolt onto my harness, why would I not do that here?