> Notably, our worker did not have access to the web_search tool, but instead decided to use curl to access DuckDuckGo, Github, grep.app, and SourceGraph.

Sounds like a very reasonable thing to do unless the author explicitly asked it to not search the web.

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xyzsparetimexyz 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

it sucks how difficult it is to give it granular access to shell commands. Like if I'm running plan mode and write+edit are blocked, it shouldn't be able to echo some data into a file as a work around

	▲	ballon_monkey 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you're building your own system this is an easy problem to solve.

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spike021 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I can't even get Claude to stop writing python to parse json instead of using jq despite baking it into agent memory and skills.

	▲	NegativeLatency an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Try your main agents file, not quite the same thing but I’ve been able to get mine to use better tools most of the time https://github.com/nburns/dotfiles/blob/main/AGENTS.md#tools

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thousand_nights 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

people want fuzzy analog machines with digital controls, it's impossible

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fragmede 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think they actually wanted to. That's just where the technology is, unfortunately.

	▲	perching_aix 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How do you mean?