Google's Astra chains Python, cat and ripgrep in a single bash call—"kind of art"
lucasmeijer · x · 2026-09-21
Developer Lucas Meijer shared an observation of Google's Astra agent in action: in a single bash call, it used Python to edit one file, cat to write another, Python to write a third, then ran rg --files apps/web | grep '\.css$' | head to filter files. He called the fluid tool-mixing "kind of art".
The detail illustrates how frontier agents flexibly combine multiple tools within one call to reach a goal.
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