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gck1yesterday at 9:17 PM1 replyview on HN

Start building your own liteweight "harness" that does things you need. Ignore all functionality of clients like CC or Codex and just implement whatever you start missing in your harness.

You can replace pretty much everything - skills system, subagents, etc with just tmux and a simple cli tool that the official clients can call.

Oh and definitely disable any form of "memory" system.

Essentially, treat all tooling that wraps the models as dumb gateways to inference. Then provider switch is basically a one line config change.


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TacticalCoderyesterday at 10:14 PM

> You can replace pretty much everything - skills system, subagents, etc with just tmux and a simple cli tool that the official clients can call.

I'm very interest by this. Can you go a bit more into details?

ATM for example I'm running Claude Code CLI in a VM on a server and I use SSH to access it. I don't depend on anything specific to Anthropic. But it's still a bit of a pain to "switch" to, say, Codex.

How would that simple CLI tool work? And would CC / Codex call it?

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