"Shell maximalism": replace MCP, custom tools and subagents with plain shell commands
remilouf · x · 2026-09-08
remilouf argues for a "shell maximalist" approach to coding agent workflows: custom tools become shell commands, MCP tools become shell commands, subagents are just background jobs with &, fg and wait, and a sandbox is a wrapper command — collapsing agent abstractions into plain shell.
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