Show HN: Aict – Unix coreutils that output XML/JSON, built for AI agents
github.comAnother tool to look at is `jc`, which parses the output of about 80 classic Unix utilities and converts it to JSON.
It’s been submitted a few times, some with significant discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33448204 (132 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266193 (146 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38569240 (159 comments)
did not know this existed, thanks!
Something like that would also be great for scripting, not only agents.
But this can be a fair advantage angaints the token usage in AI agents..
Yes, you are right!!
Nice.
Why not CSV?
> <file size="1024" lang="go"/> is shorter than {"size":1024,"lang":"go"}.