The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use

Huh, isn't this already built-in, in most chat UIs?

This is for running locally in the terminal (or in WSL2 if you are on Windows).

Here is an example session from a similar script that I <cough>ChatGPT</cough> wrote in Perl, illustrating the same concept:

$ ~/agentloop.pl

YOUR PROMPT:

Is Python installed on this system? If so, which version?

BASH STDIN:

python --version 2>&1 || python3 --version 2>&1

BASH STDOUT:

/bin/bash: python: command not found

Python 3.6.7

LLM RESPONSE:

Python is installed on this system. The version available is Python 3.6.7. However, it looks like the python executable (python) is not directly available, but python3 (or a direct version path) exists and resolves to Python 3.6.7.

If you need to use Python, you should use python3 as the command.

Which chat UI lets me use my local tools? Like git, find, pnpm, curl...?

Has anybody written an Electron app yet which injects tools into existing chat UIs, letting you you expose whatever you want from your machine to them via Node? I was planning to create something like that for the BigCo internal chat UI I work on.

Someone wrote a browser extension that does that for Gemini web chat

Careful, this might break the ToS on some products. At least for those that offer all you can prompt in a browser vs. API.