Comment by jameshart

Yes - Or a working directory that’s under version control where they can write arbitrary memory files and maintain working state across contexts.

These are things devs often take for granted as being part of ‘how chat agents operate’ but they are specific to how claude code/opencode/pi/codex operate.

Giving agents a Unix computer account they can play with is definitely a powerful tool that makes them capable of doing a lot more (see: meta muse, OpenAI dots), in much the same way that giving a human a computer they are trained to use makes them way more capable… but it’s surely not the only way we can run these things.