{"slug": "show-hn-watch-how-an-ai-agent-thinks", "title": "Show HN: Watch how an AI agent thinks", "summary": "A developer released an interactive demo that visualizes how an AI agent thinks, showing its planning, actions, memory usage, and error recovery as it reasons about what to cook using ingredients in a fridge.", "body_md": "# Watch how an AI agent thinks\n\n3 things to know about AI agents:how they workhow they recoverwhy they forget\n\nfridge\n\n“What can I make with what's in my fridge?”\n\nI'm an AI agent: an AI in a loop with tools. Press play.\n\nplan1 plan\n\nplan\n\n- ·Pick the dish\n- ·See what's actually here\n- ·Find a stand-in\n- ·Make the stand-in\n- ·Final check, then cook\n\nactions1/26 events\n\nwaiting…\n\nmemory0%\n\n0\n\n/ 8,000 tokens\n\n0.0 / 57s\n\npausedrun 01 / 03\n\n`← →` scrub\n\n`1–3` runs", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-watch-how-an-ai-agent-thinks", "canonical_source": "https://www.howagentsthink.com/?mode=code", "published_at": "2026-07-07 17:16:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-07 17:30:06.136899+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-tools"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-watch-how-an-ai-agent-thinks", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-watch-how-an-ai-agent-thinks.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-watch-how-an-ai-agent-thinks.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-watch-how-an-ai-agent-thinks.jsonld"}}