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HOW TO BUILD AGENTS WITH FILESYSTEMS AND BASH

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A simple, effective architecture for AI agents is a standard filesystem and Bash tools. Since LLMs have a native understanding of code and Unix commands, agents can easily navigate and retrieve information from data structured as files, much like exploring a codebase. This approach overcomes the limitations of prompt stuffing and imprecise vector search by offering natural data hierarchies, exact retrieval, and minimal context loading.