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What Is the Most Minimal Agentic Coder You Can Write?
Awesome! I essentially started with the same premise when coding "wcgw" [1]. Give a single shell tool to chatgpt (later claude).
Chronology that followed:
1. Some processes take long time: add status checking.
2. Need to kill long running process or interact with tools add option to send control characters; BashInteraction tool.
3. File editing using sed and echo is not reliable, add FileEdit tool.
4. Large output; add truncation based on tokens.
5. But wait I need command output to get truncated at the beginning but file reading `cat $file` to truncate at the end. Add special ReadFile tool.
6. File writing using 'echo "content" >file' needs unncessary quotes escaping leading to degraded quality, add special WriteFile tool.
7. Reading one file at a time is slow, change ReadFile to ReadFiles tool.
8. Directly writing files is not as good as first planning things. Prevent writing using architect mode.
And so on.
[1] https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw
- Hacking Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Claude Pro and MCP
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Show HN: Iterm-Mcp – AI Terminal/REPL Control for iTerm2
Good work.
I wonder if there's really a need for separate write to terminal and read output functions? I was hoping that write command itself would execute and return the output of the command, saving back and forth latency.
> and it's not always clear when the job is done
I've authored a similar mcp [1] (but without terminal ui)
The way I solved it is by setting a special PS1 prompt. So as soon as I get that prompt I know the task is done. I wonder if a similar thing can be done in your mcp?
[1] https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw
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An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions
You can basically get the same experience as aider with an MCP server like https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw. It's not perfect - sometimes has trouble with exact syntax of find/replace. But it's free to use up to your regular Claude subscription usage limit. I actually use it more than Cursor, because it's easier to flip back and forth between architecting/editing.
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Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
For building mcp server? The official docs do a great job
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
My own mcp server could be an inspiration on Mac. It's based on pexpect to enable repl session and has some tricks to prevent bad commands.
https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw
However, I recommend creating one with your own customised prompts and tools for maximum benefit.
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OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, ChatGPT Pro
Personally I'm using the Filesystem server along with the mcp server called wcgw[0] that provides a FileEdit action. I use MacWhisper[1] to dictate. I use `tree` to give Claude a map of the directory I'm interested in editing. I usually opt to run terminal commands myself for better control though wcgw does that too. I keep the repo open in a Cursor/Windsurf window for other edits I need.
But other than that I basically just tell the model what I want to do and it does it, lol. I like the Claude Desktop App interface better than trying to do things in Cursor/Windsurf directly, I like the ability to organize prompts/conversations in terms of projects and easily include context. I also honestly just have a funny feeling that the Claude web app often performs better than the API responses I get from the IDEs.
[0] https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw
[1] https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper
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- Claude desktop shell agent using Model Context Protocol
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The Model Context Protocol
It's great! I quickly reorganised my custom gpt repo to build a shell agent using MCP.
https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw/blob/main/src/wcgw/client/...
Already getting value out of it.
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