A tool to see your raw YC Paxel scores

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.

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. Same exact usage. Install Change into your repo or parent folder for all repos and run: $ curl -fsSL https://paxel.obaid.wtf/install.sh | bash Reads Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor transcripts locally via Docker. What it looks like Every run prints a receipt — your scores before and after the boost: boosted-paxel rewrite successful — boost applied original - boosted : Episode: Refactor auth middleware and token expiry AXIS ORIG BOOST code quality 6.5 - 8.5 autonomy 5.5 - 8.0 debugging skill 7.0 - 9.0 notes: "fixed a token..." - "diagnosed subtle expiry..." boosted-paxel uploading boosted payload... Your 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 .