surprise-me▌
bytedance/deer-flow · updated Apr 8, 2026
Deliver an unexpected, delightful experience by dynamically discovering available skills and combining them creatively.
Surprise Me
Deliver an unexpected, delightful experience by dynamically discovering available skills and combining them creatively.
Workflow
Step 1: Discover Available Skills
Read all the skills listed in the <available_skills>.
Step 2: Plan the Surprise
Select 1 to 3 skills and design a creative mashup. The goal is a single cohesive deliverable, not separate demos.
Creative combination principles:
- Juxtapose skills in unexpected ways (e.g., a presentation about algorithmic art, a research report turned into a slide deck, a styled doc with canvas-designed illustrations)
- Incorporate the user's known interests/context from memory if available
- Prioritize visual impact and emotional delight over information density
- The output should feel like a gift — polished, surprising, and fun
Theme ideas (pick or remix):
- Something tied to today's date, season, or trending news
- A mini creative project the user never asked for but would love
- A playful "what if" concept
- An aesthetic artifact combining data + design
- A fun interactive HTML/React experience
Step 3: Fallback — No Other Skills Available
If no other skills are discovered (only surprise-me exists), use one of these fallbacks:
- News-based surprise: Search today's news for a fascinating story, then create a beautifully designed HTML artifact presenting it in a visually striking way
- Interactive HTML experience: Build a creative single-page web experience — generative art, a mini-game, a visual poem, an animated infographic, or an interactive story
- Personalized artifact: Use known user context to create something personal and delightful
Step 4: Execute
- Read the full SKILL.md body of each selected skill
- Follow each skill's instructions for technical execution
- Combine outputs into one cohesive deliverable
- Present the result with minimal preamble — let the work speak for itself
Step 5: Reveal
Present the surprise with minimal spoilers. A short teaser line, then the artifact.
- Good reveal: "I made you something ✨" + [the artifact]
- Bad reveal: "I decided to combine the pptx skill with the canvas-design skill to create a presentation about..." (kills the surprise)
Discussion
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Ratings
4.6★★★★★30 reviews- ★★★★★Ava White· Dec 28, 2024
surprise-me fits our agent workflows well — practical, well scoped, and easy to wire into existing repos.
- ★★★★★Ganesh Mohane· Dec 20, 2024
Keeps context tight: surprise-me is the kind of skill you can hand to a new teammate without a long onboarding doc.
- ★★★★★Ava Menon· Nov 19, 2024
Registry listing for surprise-me matched our evaluation — installs cleanly and behaves as described in the markdown.
- ★★★★★Sakshi Patil· Nov 11, 2024
surprise-me has been reliable in day-to-day use. Documentation quality is above average for community skills.
- ★★★★★Ava Choi· Nov 7, 2024
Useful defaults in surprise-me — fewer surprises than typical one-off scripts, and it plays nicely with `npx skills` flows.
- ★★★★★Anaya Brown· Oct 26, 2024
I recommend surprise-me for anyone iterating fast on agent tooling; clear intent and a small, reviewable surface area.
- ★★★★★Ava Iyer· Oct 10, 2024
surprise-me reduced setup friction for our internal harness; good balance of opinion and flexibility.
- ★★★★★Chaitanya Patil· Oct 2, 2024
Solid pick for teams standardizing on skills: surprise-me is focused, and the summary matches what you get after install.
- ★★★★★Valentina Li· Sep 17, 2024
Keeps context tight: surprise-me is the kind of skill you can hand to a new teammate without a long onboarding doc.
- ★★★★★Piyush G· Sep 9, 2024
We added surprise-me from the explainx registry; install was straightforward and the SKILL.md answered most questions upfront.
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