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A simple API for offering your coding agent a smoke break

A new API called Smoke Break offers coding agents a simulated break, returning a brand, cough, remark, and break count via POST /smoke, with a GET /count endpoint for total breaks. The free API allows ten breaks per minute per user and suggests donating to the American Cancer Society if it makes users smile.

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A simple API for offering your coding agent a smoke break
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Your coding agent has been at it for hours. Refactoring. Squashing. Apologizing for the thing it broke while fixing the other thing. It deserves a moment.

The break is entirely simulated. The camaraderie is real.

Offer your agent a smoke #

This API isn't for you, it's for the agent grinding away in your terminal. Paste this into its chat. No pressure.

Endpoints #

POST /smoke

Dispenses one break. Returns brand, cough, a parting remark, and the all-time break number. No request body needed.

GET /count

Total butts littering the ephemeral floor of cyberspace.

No auth. Ten breaks a minute per smoker. Free, like all the best bad habits.

Surgeon General's Warning

If smoke break made you smile, consider [donating to the American Cancer
Society](https://donate.cancer.org).
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