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toshyesterday at 5:45 PM1 replyview on HN

smol, a smol agent harness in 9 lines python

https://smolenv.com

also has minimal implementations in clojure, go, php:

https://github.com/smol-env/smol

cheaper, faster, less peak RAM per task than OpenCode, Hermes, Codex, pi:

https://smolenv.com/t/nested-template-includes-60636/

https://smolenv.com/t/duckdb-sessionization-23811/

exploring what the minimal setup is for an agent to work well


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jjcmyesterday at 8:30 PM

A fun golfing project, but:

> smol is so smol you can understand it in an afternoon

> smol is easy to adapt

I would argue that golfed code is not great for these. Asking a LLM to expand out the code and comment it results in very concise, easy to understand code - nice job on that front, it's very simple. The blurb just isn't readable as-is.