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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.

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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.
lanyard-textile
If you act like a doctor and someone gets hurt from your acting, that's the main trouble.

I am not sure the same standard would apply for a fortune teller :)

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?

mikestorrent
I once did an exercise to review the previous week's horoscope and grade each sign on how closely it corresponded to my actual week. I found no consistency whatsoever, so I'm not just miscategorized into the wrong sign, but in fact none of them had any predictive value. It might be fun to broaden that out to other sources of horoscope than my local Coffee News, maybe a better mystic is what I need
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...
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ggnore7452
Isn't that the memory files are loading by default?
gorlokthedev
i wonder how the output will be in different LLM
tokyoproductj
So the astrology is deterministic, and the interpretation is probabilistic. Which is interesting, because that’s exactly where most of the perceived “accuracy” tends to come from.