Dev: Plan 9's 30-year-old 9P protocol fits the external shape of agent systems
remilouf · x · 2026-09-10
Developer remilouf argues that 9P, the 30-year-old Plan 9 distributed file protocol, is surprisingly well-aligned with what the external shape of an agent system should look like — and the more he digs, the more problems it solves. 9P embodies Plan 9's 'everything is a file' abstraction, which the author sees as a valuable reference for designing agent-facing interfaces.
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