We’ve all gotten a bad output from an agent. And if we’re honest, some of us (👉👈) have said something to it… we’re not proud of.
This week’s one feature is the grown-up way to handle that exact moment. It’s called /rewind, and it changed how I work with Claude Code.
The night I almost yelled at my agent
It was late. My context window was bloated, my energy was gone, and I just wanted to finish one important change and go to sleep.
Then the agent broke everything we’ve built.
I lost my temper. I was about to fire off some version of useless “no, this is wrong, you clearly understand this, please redo”.
This would have bloated the context even more by arguing with it.
Instead, I typed /rewind.
/rewind jumps you back to an earlier point in the conversation and wipes everything that came after - the context and the code changes.
Step 1 – select the message to rewind to
Think Ctrl+Z, but several steps back, and you choose exactly where to land. (Double-tap Esc does a quick one straight to the last point.)
You even pick what comes back: keep the code and only clean up the conversation, or rewind everything, code included.
Step 2 – decide what to keep/rewind
So I went back a few steps and, this time, wrote a better prompt.
It’s a new mindset
When the agent gets something wrong, it’s usually because I didn’t tell it enough context. Or described the output poorly. My first prompt just wasn’t specific enough.
So instead of patching a bad result with more (slightly angry) messages, I rewind and fix the prompt that caused it.
It’s not the agent’s fault. It’s just a signal what to explain clearer.
An Idea For This Week
Next time you catch yourself about to swear at Claude Code – that’s your /rewind moment.
Go back, rewrite the prompt with what you forgot to say the first time, and let it try again. Handle it with grace ;)
Shipyard updates
This week I got lucky and played with Fable 5 a little before it got restricted.
I gave it a silly idea: a Chrome extension that nudges you to drink water with a funny notification animation. It cooked overnight and made it so well, I decided to ship it.
Thanks to extension-related skills I’d already built every step from SEO-research to submission rocket-fast. And we’re already live!
If you use Chrome and you have a minute to help me with testing (and a 5-star review 🤭) – you can install it here: Water Reminder App
Duck pilot? Makes sense…
You told me the short format lands better - and honestly, it’s easier for me to write too, so everyone wins :D Just go enjoy these summer days.