Now make it into an IntelliJ plugin which has proper access to the search index. I’ll pay for it. For Christs sake it’s insane JetBrains hasn’t figured this out yet
Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
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Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#52I (somewhat jokingly) wrote one recently too... https://github.com/pnegahdar/nano in under 200 lines. Repl, sessions, non-interactive, approvals, etc
The smarter the models get the less the harnesses matter (outside of devx).
Maybe one day I'll run it through swebech.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been trying to use `Deno` underneath `Rust` so that the tools can still be written in Typescript and thus self-mutated without the compilation step (but I can still try to do clever things with V8 Isolates or similar). It's been an ugly experiment so far; I'm vaguely thinking a simpler model would be to just define a binary "API" and run tools by exec-ing binaries.
Why not WASM?
Unfamiliarity and I believe it requires a compile step. I’m at least familiar with Typescript and Deno so being able to embed them was an appealing idea :)
Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#56I love these. Coding agents aren't very difficult to build, it's a TUI + tools + getting a nice agent loop working. The hardest part seems to be supporting all of the different providers and model quirks. What is interesting is seeing the experimentation: some provide tons of tools, others provide a single python interpreter and have the agent use tools via sandboxed python scripts, others use minimal tools and lean on bash. Personally I want a harness that gives a ton of control to the user to let them steer the LLM, less agent and more augmentation. Maybe I'll have to build it myself. If anyone has ideas, let me know.
Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#57I (somewhat jokingly) wrote one recently too... https://github.com/pnegahdar/nano in under 200 lines. Repl, sessions, non-interactive, approvals, etc The smarter the models get the less the harnesses matter (outside of devx). Maybe one day I'll run it through swebech.
I like it
Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been trying to use `Deno` underneath `Rust` so that the tools can still be written in Typescript and thus self-mutated without the compilation step (but I can still try to do clever things with V8 Isolates or similar). It's been an ugly experiment so far; I'm vaguely thinking a simpler model would be to just define a binary "API" and run tools by exec-ing binaries.
I have to be honest and tell you that try to load such an heavy runtime as a scripting layer is not a great idea; at the same time I can tell you that I am working on another Rust project where I also needed scripting, and after three attempts I landed on rhai ( https://rhai.rs/ ) ( https://rhai.rs/book ). You might find it nice for pretty much all use cases except for high-performance scripting (so, if you are not t…
I was just going to suggest rhai. It's simple enough LLMs can easily write it with a little context, and you control the entire API so you can sandbox effectively without needing to resort to hacks with a JS interpreter etc.
Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#59I (somewhat jokingly) wrote one recently too... https://github.com/pnegahdar/nano in under 200 lines. Repl, sessions, non-interactive, approvals, etc The smarter the models get the less the harnesses matter (outside of devx). Maybe one day I'll run it through swebech.
So freaking cool..in just 200 (190 actually) lines.
I also wrote one by myself last week (just for fun and learning). It works, including integration with configured mcpServers (like you do in most coding agents). Wrote about the whole step-by-step process and what is needed at what step and why: https://nb1t.sh/building-a-real-agent-step-by-step/
Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#60I absolutely like this. Pi becomes sluggish after installing a couple of extensions. I myself was trying to port Pi to Rust but it was consuming too much tokens.
Is there any API like Pi so that I can create extensions.