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by tontinton 14 hours ago
It's a TUI you're right, but it's also a harness.

As much as I hate to admit, T the tools you provide, the descriptions, and prompts, all amount to pretty big changes in experience, even using the same models.

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That didn't help very much. What did you mean by "agents" earlier on? The tool/harness or the LLM itself?

Also -- can you make Maki enforce the underlying LLM to use stuff like fd/rg and not always default to find/grep, for example? And stop trying to do bash-isms in a zsh system?

I meant harnesses / TUIs, sorry to confuse.

Using fd/rg sounds interesting, honestly it would require little tweaks to the bash tool lua plugin, either add to the description to prefer these binaries instead or something like that.

In general though I much prefer "advising" and encouraging the LLM to use the native tools like grep l/glob, they are implemented to be super fast, and you will get better parser output.