All You Need Is CLI

One of the engineers behind Manus shared a bunch of interesting tips about building agents. Above all: you don’t need specialized tools, just one run(command="...") to run cli tools whose interfaces are usually familiar to the underlying model. The agentic risks are mitigated by running some of those commands inside BoxLite containers (microvms). Most commands never touch the OS. cat, grep, memory search, browser open — these look like shell commands but they’re implemented as a Go command r...