maki

+1, I'll also add Maki to the list: https://github.com/tontinton/maki

https://github.com/tontinton/maki is tackling the right issues IMO. not sure how they compare with the rest

I personally also don't like this, so use cargo to install it, it's in the readme. Takes a reasonable time to build on my X220, but on a modern computer it is plenty fast. cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/tontinton/maki.git maki

That's a harness concern, not a protocol concern. For example, maki [0] allows that automatically for all tools > code_execution tool - uses monty to run an interpreter that has all other tools available as async functions. Maki uses it to filter / summarize / transform / pipe data to other tools as input, without it ever reaching and polluting the context window. Sandbox limited by time & memory. Failing that, you can just disable native MCP in your harness and have your agent use a CLI tool that calls MCP, like mcp-cli [1], and then the agent can use regular unix pipes to filter or transform the output. Here, rather than raw grep or sed (which are line oriented), the agent would probably use things like jq. [0] https://github.com/tontinton/maki#context-efficiency [1] https://github.com/philschmid/mcp-cli

Maybe https://github.com/tontinton/maki

All the harness tools have been re-implemented as plugins in Lua: https://github.com/tontinton/maki/tree/main/plugins Here is the full API reference: https://maki.sh/docs/lua-api/

Yep exactly my thoughts, went and looked at the code for the deepseek provider in my coding agent. and basically all of what the author wrote there is implemented... http://github.com/tontinton/maki for the curios

Yo that's really similar to my very own https://github.com/tontinton/maki only I'm MIT and you're GPL, cool

Yeah we all converge to the same workflow, in my ai coding agent I'm working on now, I've added an "index" tool that uses tree-sitter to compress and show the AI a skeleton of a code file. Here's the implementation for the interested: https://github.com/tontinton/maki/blob/main/maki-code-index%...