nikvdp

I built something similar ([1]) that you might find interesting. Similar to your project, but with the fun tweak that it bundles searxng inside itself, so you don't need to run or find a searxng instance to use it.

[1]: https://github.com/nikvdp/searxng-ai-kit

nikvdp

5 months agodiscuss

If you like the man page aesthetic, using pandoc with groff is the most readable way to read markdown on the terminal I've found:

    mdless() {
        if command -v pandoc >/dev/null; then
            if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
                cat | pandoc -s -f markdown -t man | groff -T utf8 -man | less
            else
                pandoc -s -f markdown -t man "$*" | groff -T utf8 -man | less
            fi
        else
            less "$@"
        fi
    }

nikvdp

6 months agodiscuss

For a similar but lighter weight (and less isolated) tool that uses the OS's sandboxing functionality (bubblewrap on linux, Seatbelt/sandbox-exec on macos) or docker check out cco [1] (note: I built it). It's primarily useful now because it can also sandbox other agents like opencode or codex since Anthropic has added native sandboxing functionality to Claude Code itself now. Their sandbox works similarly, also using bubblewrap and seatbelt, and can be accessed via the /sandbox slash command inside Claude Code [2].

[1]: https://github.com/nikvdp/cco [2]: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sandboxing

nikvdp

6 months agodiscuss

Good call, added a link.

Linear is great, it's what JIRA should've been. Basically task management for people who don't want to deal with task management. It's also full featured, fast (they were famously one of the earlier apps to use a local-first sync-engine style architecture), and keyboard-centric.

Definitely suitable for hobby projects, but can also scale to large teams and massive codebases.

nikvdp

6 months agodiscuss

You might like linear-beads[1] better. It's a simpler and less invasive version of beads I made to solve some of the unusual design choices. It can also (optionally) use linear as the storage backend for the agent's tasks, which has the excellent side effect that you as a human can actually see what the agent is working on and direct the agent from within linear.

Despite it's quirks I think beads is going to go down as one of the first pieces of software that got some adoption where the end user is an agent

[1]: https://github.com/nikvdp/linear-beads

nikvdp

7 months agodiscuss

omg the sound when you win is certainly not the reward I was hoping for

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