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I wonder if the motivation is to make Ai agents work better on Windows?
by fabiensanglard 5mo ago
I wonder if the motivation is to make Ai agents work better on Windows?
- FergusArgyll 5mo agoFor sure. I wonder how long until the agents learn about this though. At least a year, right?
- ex1fm3ta 5mo agonope. With ClaudeCode you can create skills ( basically markdown instructions) to teach your agents what command to use. You can also update CLAUDE.md to inject custom instructions that are feeded anything ClaudeCode is started.
- jayd16 5mo agoIf that was sufficient wouldn't it just be easier to map to the Powershell commands directly?
- AgentMasterRace 5mo agoClaude code (at least the cli) has this, their code leaked so you can see their extensive (1000+ LOC) PowerShell took script.
- AgentMasterRace 5mo agoTool* (no edit button?)
- GMoromisato 5mo agoOr you can tell your agent about it in one line of AGENTS.md.
- eksu 5mo agoAgents / models don't need to "learn" about this. When on Windows, the models default to bash / coreutils conventions until they realize it doesn't work / not available unless explicitly instructed otherwise. Even on Mac, they tend to default to bash instead of running things in zsh.
- lhecker 5mo agoThe intent was simply to give people coming from macOS and Linux more of the CLI tools they're familiar with. In other words, agents weren't the focus at all. But if it ends up helping them, that's a good added benefit of course.
- penguin_booze 5mo agoCould come pre-installed with cygwin instead.
- deleted 5mo ago[deleted]
- okanat 5mo agoCygwin isn't native Windows. Cygwin does many unholy things to enable signals and fork syscall in binaries. uutils enables fully Windows native commands in the subset of system calls and disk structure Windows supports.