[maccard]

One of the problems with tools is the permissions for them. I can either grant Claude access to this one specific python command, or free run with python to do whatever it wants, but not “you can execute the python scripts in this directory structure”.

Claude’s “api access required” approach means that I can’t even experiment with customising the harness without doubling up…

[frio]

Yes, that aggravates me too. I noted recently, Claude had a phase where it would write little one-off Python scripts to aid it in analysis -- which is super useful! But when it's written ten scripts in a row, each of which I've had to review and each of which I've had to approve by hand, it gets pretty annoying. If I could bless it with "if it only uses these Python libraries, pre-approve the script", that would've made life a lot simpler, but of course, that's not possible. Sigh.