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Bash for Agents

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 8 comments · first 2025-12-27 · latest 2026-10-17

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  1. …running a heavy weight vm. See just bash as another example project for taking advantage of this ( https://github.com/vercel-labs/just-bash ) I'm curious to see what happens!
    comment by tallowen · 2026-10-17 · in Tsc-ts: TypeScript written in TypeScript
  2. …for standard unix commands and bash syntax with optional curl, Python, JS/TS, and sqlite support. https://github.com/vercel-labs/just-bash/tree/main/packages/... See also (credited by TFA): https://vercel.com/blog/how-to-build-agents-with-f…
    comment by andai · 2026-07-09 · in Files over tools: how we built our agent with a virtual filesystem and bash
  3. Does it work in just-bash? https://github.com/vercel-labs/just-bash/blob/main/packages/...
    comment by cachius · 2026-04-30 · in Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell
  4. …of other common Unix tools in TypeScript purely to have an environment agents know how to use: https://github.com/vercel-labs/just-bash I'd rather run a 10MB WASM bundle with a full existing Linux build in then reimplement it all in…
    comment by simonw · 2026-03-10 · in JSLinux Now Supports x86_64
  5. …Cloudflare or something. [0]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/agents/api-reference/codem... [1]: https://github.com/vercel-labs/just-bash
    comment by goodmodule · 2026-03-01 · in When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
  6. https://github.com/vercel-labs/just-bash/blob/main/src/spec-... That's a lot of incompatibilities. LLMs like to use the shell because it's stable and virtually unchanged for decades. It doesn't need to worry much about versions or whether…
    comment by gaigalas · 2026-02-26 · in Just-bash: Bash for Agents
  7. …to write scripts and run them. I haven't tried just-bash, but it seems interesting for comparison: https://github.com/vercel-labs/just-bash
    comment by skybrian · 2026-02-04 · in Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly
  8. Sounds like just-bash: https://github.com/vercel-labs/just-bash
    comment by simonw · 2026-01-30 · in Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents