{"slug": "show-hn-askaboard-a-canvas-your-ai-agent-can-draw-on", "title": "Show HN: Askaboard – A canvas your AI agent can draw on", "summary": "Developer Nordup released Askaboard, a free, open-source shared canvas app for Mac (Apple silicon and Intel) that lets users connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor over MCP using an existing subscription so the AI agent can draw, write and make shapes on the board. The app is distributed as a direct .dmg download from GitHub and is positioned for learning tasks such as checking work and explaining problems step by step.", "body_md": "[Askaboard](https://askaboard.com/)\n\n# Ask anything. \n\nLearn anything.\n\nA shared canvas for learning with your AI.\n\n[Download for Mac](https://github.com/Nordup/askaboard/releases/latest/download/Askaboard.dmg)\n\n[Open source on GitHub](https://github.com/Nordup/askaboard)\n\n## Connect your agent\n\nConnect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor over MCP, using your existing subscription. Askaboard is free.\n\n## Open a board, start learning\n\n[Download for Mac](https://github.com/Nordup/askaboard/releases/latest/download/Askaboard.dmg)\n\nFree and open source · Apple silicon and Intel\n\nwhy is the sky blue?\n\nwhy is the sky blue?\n\nI cannot solve it, help me?\n\nI cannot solve it, help me?\n\n2,000+ rows I'm lost explain simply?\n\n2,000+ rows, I'm lost, explain simply?\n\nmove things around\n\ndraw, write, make shapes\n\ntwo waves (interference) constructive interference\n\nneuron dendrite (receive) axon (send) synapse (to next neuron)\n\ncube rotate\n\nshort path through air air (thickness exaggerated) long path through air Earth blue sky: light scattered toward you red sunset: light left in the direct beam\n\nx² = 9\n\nx = 3 and −3? x = ±3\n\nyour agent sees what you write\n\nit checks your work\n\nit explains until it clicks\n\nyour agent sees what you write\n\nit checks your work\n\nit explains until it clicks\n\nopen a board, start learning\n\nopen a board, start learning", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-askaboard-a-canvas-your-ai-agent-can-draw-on", "canonical_source": "https://askaboard.com", "published_at": "2026-11-09 13:43:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-09 13:52:15.854267+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "agent-protocols", "ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Askaboard", "Nordup", "Claude", "ChatGPT", "Cursor", "GitHub", "MCP"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-askaboard-a-canvas-your-ai-agent-can-draw-on", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-askaboard-a-canvas-your-ai-agent-can-draw-on.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-askaboard-a-canvas-your-ai-agent-can-draw-on.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-askaboard-a-canvas-your-ai-agent-can-draw-on.jsonld"}}