[hankbond]

Ok yeah fair enough I think thats a sizable distinction. FWIW you can do the same thing inside a python process with eval()/exec(), or if we were still keeping it external to the harness process you could just run python as a persistent process listening to stdin. That way you retain the state from when the last command exited.

I wonder if there are any efficiencies to be gained from running a stateful sidecar process like that or if the LLM will have too much of a hard time juggling the state to make coherent followup calls.