Comment by embedding-shape
17 hours ago
> I've tried using qwen and deepseek but they can't even output documents
What agent harness did you use? Usually, "write_file", "shell_exec" or similar is two of the first tools you add to an agent harness, after read_file/list_files. If it doesn't have those tools, unsure if you could even call it a agent harness in the first place.
Sorry for the confusion, I was actually talking about their Web based chat. Since most of my work is governance and docs, I just use their Web chats and they just refuse to output proper documents like Claude or Chatgpt do.
Aha... Well, I let Codex (Claude Code would work too) manage/troubleshoot .xlsx files too, seems to handle it just fine (it tends to un-archive them and browse the resulting XML files without issues), seen it do similar stuff for .app and .docx files too so maybe give that a try with other harnesses/models too, they might get it :)
Yeah, it's just way easier to do via the web/mobile app but I'll give using it via the CLI a try. Thanks :)
You're not giving an AI command line access to your work computer? How do you expect to keep up? /s
You give it command line access in a VM...
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You can make a harness fully functional with just the "shell_exec" tool if you give it access to a linux/unix environment + playwright cli.