Agents just do this anyway, how is it a “mode”? I always see the agent writing scripts in a tmp dir to execute or even just inlining bash and python scripts.

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jsw97 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Perhaps the appeal is a stronger and more customizable lockdown on agent capabilities.

	▲	imtringued 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		We're in a HN submission about the least locked down LLM harness, it's too late for that.

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Cilvic 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

but these bash scripts can not execute MCP tools.

What if I have an MCP Tool LookupZip(City) and want to chain it with a bash tool that prodcues a list of 100 cities. And then I want to filter again to the largest Zip code.

	▲	jsw97 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah but arguably that tool should be a cli anyway, or could easily be converted to one. The benefit of MCP is that it's _less_ capable than bash.