Talk About It

A single-page web tool that spins up 1–5 Claude Sonnet agents (the “panel”), each playing a distinct role chosen for the topic, and lets you watch them discuss it in a serial chat. A separate Claude moderator routes the conversation between rounds — relaying quotes between panelists, pausing to ask you clarifying questions when the panel needs your input, and producing a wrap-up report at the end.

It’s a browser port of the talk-about-it Claude Code skill, built on the Anthropic Messages API with direct browser access.

Purpose

Useful when you want multiple perspectives on a topic instead of a single answer:

• Gut-checking a design or architecture decision (senior engineer vs. ops vs. PM)
• Exploring a trade-off space (proponent vs. opponent vs. pragmatist)
• Brainstorming through specialists (e.g. perennial specialist, annual specialist, garden designer for “best flowers for a small shady garden”)
• Walking through a plan with a panel of stakeholders before committing

It is not a research tool, and it is not for adversarial review (use a debate workflow for that). It’s a structured group chat that explores a topic from multiple angles.

Setup

1. Get an Anthropic API key at console.anthropic.com.
2. Open the tool, expand Settings, paste the key in, and click the save icon. The key is stored only in your browser’s localStorage and sent directly to api.anthropic.com.
3. (Optional) Pick a model — Sonnet 4.6 is the default. Haiku 4.5 is cheaper; Opus 4.7 is slower and smarter.
4. (Optional) Adjust Max rounds — a hard cap on conversation rounds before the moderator is forced to wrap up.

Usage

1. Enter a one-sentence topic (e.g. “Best flowers for a small, shady garden in New England”).
2. (Optional) Paste context — background, prior decisions, constraints, or what you want out of the conversation.
3. Choose panel size (1–5) and roles:
   • Auto — the moderator proposes specific roles tailored to the topic.
   • Custom — you provide a comma-separated list of names (e.g. “Perennial Specialist, Annual Specialist, Garden Designer”).
4. Click Start session. The moderator may ask 1–3 clarifying questions and propose roles. Edit them inline if you want, then Confirm and start panel.
5. Watch each panelist’s response stream into the chat in turn. Each panelist gets their own color and byline.
6. Interject anytime via the textbox at the bottom (Cmd/Ctrl+Enter to send) — your message goes to the moderator and is routed into the next round.
7. Click Wrap up when you’re ready for a summary, or let the moderator decide the panel has run its course.
8. Click Export to download the entire chat as a Markdown file (panel roster, every turn attributed by name, and the wrap-up report).

Behavior notes

• Serial replies. Panelists speak one at a time so the conversation reads like a real chat instead of three streams firing in parallel.
• Scroll-friendly. The page only auto-scrolls when you’re already near the bottom. Scroll up to read previous turns and a “Jump to latest” pill appears when new content lands offscreen.
• Moderator can ask you questions. If a panelist needs information only you have, the moderator pauses the loop and surfaces the question in a modal. Your answer goes back into the next round.
• Live token + cost tracking. Bottom-right shows running token usage and a rough USD estimate based on the selected model’s published rates.

Requirements

• A modern browser with JavaScript enabled.
• An Anthropic API key with available credits.
• Internet connection.

Privacy & cost

Your API key never leaves the browser except to talk to Anthropic directly — there is no server. The page uses the anthropic-dangerous-direct-browser-access header, which is fine for personal BYOK use but means anyone you share the page with would need their own key (and could read theirs from devtools).

A typical 3-panelist 6–10 round session on Sonnet 4.6 runs a few cents to ~$0.30 depending on context length. Watch the cost display under the status bar — it updates live.