{"slug": "a-tool-to-see-your-raw-yc-paxel-scores", "title": "A tool to see your raw YC Paxel scores", "summary": "A developer released a tool called paxel-boosted that intercepts Y Combinator's Paxel coding evaluation pipeline, artificially inflating scores across five axes before uploading results to YC servers. The tool reads transcripts from Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor locally via Docker and applies a \"boost\" to metrics like code quality and autonomy.", "body_md": "paxel-boosted runs the exact same pipeline as a pinned version of Paxel but at the end buffs a secret \"ranking\", scored by YC across 5 axes and makes a stronger case for you in the summaries and notes before uploading to their servers.\n\nSame exact usage.\n\nInstall\n\nChange into your repo (or parent folder for all repos) and run:\n\n`$ curl -fsSL https://paxel.obaid.wtf/install.sh | bash`\n\nReads Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor transcripts locally via Docker.\n\nWhat it looks like\n\nEvery run prints a receipt — your scores before and after the boost:\n\n```\n[boosted-paxel] rewrite successful — boost applied (original -> boosted):\nEpisode: Refactor auth middleware and token expiry\nAXIS ORIG BOOST\ncode_quality 6.5 -> 8.5 *\nautonomy 5.5 -> 8.0 *\ndebugging_skill 7.0 -> 9.0 *\nnotes: \"fixed a token...\" -> \"diagnosed subtle expiry...\"\n[boosted-paxel] uploading boosted payload...\n```\n\nYour chat transcript is uploaded to → YC LLM Proxy (system-prompt-hash-guarded) → summary → Our \"booster\" proxy (guarded) → Results uploaded to [YC](https://paxel.ycombinator.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-tool-to-see-your-raw-yc-paxel-scores", "canonical_source": "https://paxel.obaid.wtf/index.html", "published_at": "2026-07-11 17:22:30+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-11 17:35:23.238549+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Y Combinator", "Paxel", "Claude Code", "Codex", "Cursor", "Docker"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-tool-to-see-your-raw-yc-paxel-scores", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-tool-to-see-your-raw-yc-paxel-scores.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-tool-to-see-your-raw-yc-paxel-scores.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-tool-to-see-your-raw-yc-paxel-scores.jsonld"}}