Show HN: Destiny – Claude Code's fortune Teller skill

xodn348 41 points 34 comments May 01, 2026
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Destiny is the Claude Code's plugin that gives you a real fortune reading. Type /destiny to see today's destiny! It uses the actual classical East Asian astrology system. You enter your birthday once, then /destiny gives you today's reading anytime. Two layers, kept honest: 1. The numbers (your eight-character birth chart, today's day pillar, the hexagram for the moment, five-element relationships) are computed by a Python script. Same person + same day = identical output. You can verify against any traditional calendar source. 2. The prose (today's stars, character sketch, life arc, advice) is written by Claude, applying centuries-old reading conventions to that fixed data. Not LLM-hallucinated horoscope. If you have fun with it, a star would mean a lot.

Discussion Highlights (14 comments)

awakeasleep

Could you flesh out the installation instructions a little more? I haven't used the plugin marketplace yet, and don't have a /plugin command. Claude itself is not able to tell me how to install it.

treexs

interesting, but I really wonder how big the audience is of people wanting to know their fortune while claude coding within the claude code interface

tomaytotomato

I would recommend you consider a Claude code hook, you could then specify a particular part of the agent lifecycle to invoke the fortune as an alternative to manual invocation of the skill. You could do it on `SessionStart` to give a horoscope. I am looking at making a skill to test random programming knowledge, so I don't forget that an Integer is 32bits (at least in Java)

babblingfish

feature request: marriage palace built using two user profiles

hansmayer

Since you seem to be mentioning 'destiny', 'life arc' and 'advice' -it may be wise to put in some kind of a legal disclaimer for your own sake -- the use of LLM toys for advice about life and similar have led to some really bad outcomes, even suicides as we know now.

chaqchase

Curious what prompt boundaries you're using. It's the kind of thing that's fun until it quietly invents details.

sudosteph

I am resisting the urge to be very snarky. But how do you know that Claude's hallucinated horoscopes are any less accurate than traditional techniques? Have you A/B tested them?

chakintosh

I thought anthropic is tightening usage but it seems people have nothing to do with their tokens …

throwatdem12311

Yes this is exactly what we need — the hallucinating dunning-Krueger inducing psychosis machine spewing made up pseudoscientific nonsense. Bravo.

_pdp_

Looks like a supply chain risk to me.

Balvarez

for what it's worth I think this is fun. I'm not into this sort of thing but it's fun none the less.

neonstatic

Now the call center cranks will have even better scripts to read. Perfect...

mavelikara

Love to see the evals on this one!

ggnore7452

Isn't that the memory files are loading by default?

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