Welcome to the ATmosphere

We live in such interesting times. Over the weekend, I added support for the standard.site spec. All my posts are published as standard.document attached to my Bluesky account. Well, when I say “I added” I mean I worked with claude to add this to my blog. This all happened when I saw this skeet on a Saturday morning while having my morning coffee: [Embedded post from Bluesky] So, a quick recap, I know nothing about AT Proto, aka ATmosphere. I’ve seen Dan Abramov’s musing on the topic on bluesky, but I’m going in with zero knowledge. So I figured, let's see how far we can get with claude. The worst case is that we eat up some tokens and learn some lessons. Now, sure you could tell claude: “Hey Claude, let's add standard.document support to this blog and publish posts via ATProto”. However, that’s really unlikely to get you a useful result. While claude can feel like magic, you need to guide it to consistently get good results. My approach was to start with a prompt that included a link to the spec and something along the lines of: “Lets support https://standard.site/docs/quick-start/ — On this site, lets talk about how to support this spec.” It came back with a plan, which we iterated on. Initially, it had just dumped my blog text into a field called textContent. I ended up having claude write a parser to pull any images, embeds and interactive content and replace them with descriptive content. When the plan looked solid I sent it off for implementation. Here are the session stats: Session: agitated-ptolemy-5f067a (PR #78 — standard.site / AT Protocol support) Main session (540 assistant turns) | Type | Tokens | |---|---:| | Input (uncached) | 1,060 | | Cache creation (writes) | 1,897,048 | | Cache read | 52,260,952 | | Output | 502,863 | | Total | 54,661,923 | Subagents (5 agents, 193 turns) | Type | Tokens | |---|---:| | Input (uncached) | 296 | | Cache creation (writes) | 505,387 | | Cache read | 4,728,232 | | Output | 24,837 | | Total | 5,258,752 | Grand total | Scope | Tokens | |---|---:| | Main session | 54,661,923 | | Subagents | 5,258,752 | | Grand total | 59,920,675 | I now have ATProto publishing built into this blogs build pipeline and all it cost was a few million tokens. Read the original post with all embeds and interactive content at https://rants.broonix.ca/welcome-to-the-atmosphere/