# Show HN: Buildnotes – Turn pull requests in "how it's made" posts > Source: > Published: 2026-10-22 18:27:28+00:00 # Turn pull requests into posts and videos worth sharing. How it was built, and why. A skill for coding agents. It reads a feature's issues, PRs and reviews, and finds the few decisions that shaped it. `npx skills add buildinternet/buildnotes` For Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode Then, inside your repo:`/buildnotes` **[post | video | deck]** *what to explain* /buildnotesbefore and after screenshots, side by sideHow we built room walkthrough videos Example ## Walkthrough videos in Sunny `/buildnotes How we built room walkthrough videos` ## How it works ### Gather Reads the issues, PRs, commits and reviews. ### Plan Picks the few decisions worth a chapter. ### Write and check Draws the figures, writes it up, and checks it. ## What it makes Ask in plain words, inside the repo. The first word picks the output; the post is the default. Ask for a technical deep dive or a release story to write for engineers or for users. ### Post Chapters, drawn figures and real code, as a page you can publish as is or move to your own site. `/buildnotes post how we built preview links` ### Video The post as a short video that plays itself. `/buildnotes video tech explainer of our latest PR` ### Deck The video as slides you click through, and a PDF. `/buildnotes deck slides on the new billing flow` ### Figures Any figure on its own, as an image, GIF, video or SVG. ## What it draws Figures come from the real product. This one started as a screenshot of the weekly digest card in Release Notes Index, redrawn straight on so each part can be named. ## More examples Before and after screenshots: tag two, and the pull request comment shows them side by side. Weekly digests: a card, a replay of the week, and one email a week per reader. ## Install Needs Node 22, git and Chrome. `npx skills add buildinternet/buildnotes` Then, inside your repo: `/buildnotes write up how we built preview links, from PRs 120, 131 and 140`