Brex Integrates Bash into Financial Agents
cramforce · x · 2026-07-15
Brex is deeply integrating bash into production-critical financial agents. The article emphasizes the trade-offs between cost, latency, and quality, arguing that for long-running agents, bash acts more like true "workbench glue" than tool-calling or managed sandboxes.
They built internal agents for corporate spend, including one that assists employees with expense reimbursements, proving this is a real engineering practice in live business workflows, not just a proof of concept.
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