Agents that narrate their work are the best team players

Agents like Claude Codex and Codex run in your terminal. From that strategic vantage point they can wield system tools (awk, bash, curl, git, python) as well as MCP tools. Here’s how that looks in the terminal. Bash(awk -F’T’ ‘/2026-07-23T05:/’ /Users/jonudell/bram/resources/bram-traces/bram-trace.log | grep -E “describe-patch|heartbeat-batch|reason\”:\”subscribe” | tail -12 | cut -c1-195) In What is the terminal? I wrote: These agents are maestros of the underlying command shell; they wield its powers far more effectively than most of us can. If you care to, this is a great way to learn by doing. Don’t take a course or watch a video to learn about git, just watch how agents use it in all its glorious complexity. Earlier versions of Bram displayed tool calls and results in its webview. That was a more readable and scannable version of what you see in the terminal, but otherwise added little value. What is Claude Code doing when it reaches for awk? Now that same tool call appears in a…