Show HN: Aict – Unix coreutils that output XML/JSON, built for AI agents(github.com)

https://github.com/synseqack/aict

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Another tool to look at is `jc`, which parses the output of about 80 classic Unix utilities and converts it to JSON.

It’s been submitted a few times, some with significant discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33448204 (132 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266193 (146 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38569240 (159 comments)

did not know this existed, thanks!

Something like that would also be great for scripting, not only agents.

But this can be a fair advantage angaints the token usage in AI agents..

Yes, you are right!!

This is cool. I like these little shell utils. Working on something like that myself.

Nice.

Why not CSV?

  > <file size="1024" lang="go"/> is shorter than {"size":1024,"lang":"go"}.

Really? How?