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0 pointsneonstatic1mo ago0 comments

Thanks, I am very new to this and just run models in LMStudio. I think it would be very useful to have a system prompt telling the model to run python scripts to calculate things LLMs are particularly bad at and run those scripts. Can you recommend a harness that you like to use? I suppose safety of these solutions is its own can of worms, but I am willing to try it.

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Computer01mo ago

I use Claude Code. Codex and Opencode both work too. You could even do it with VScode Copilot.

zozbot2341mo ago

These are typically coding oriented as opposed to general chat, so their system prompts may be needlessly heavy for that use case. I think the closest thing to a general solution is the emerging "claw" ecosystem, as silly as that sounds. Some of the newer "claws" do provide proper sandboxing.

kristopolous1mo ago

This is actually a perfect use case of my llcat ... Using Unix philosophy for the llm era

https://github.com/day50-dev/llcat

I've got an interesting hack brewing for extremely hassle free tool orchestration - basically think along the lines of .bash_profile level simplicity... Maybe I'll get that out tomorrow

dave71mo ago

llcat looks like it could be very handy, thank you!

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a961mo ago

I always wondered why there isn't something like tinyscheme built into the tools so the models could eval simple math and code using a reasonable language that can do accurate math but gives no access to anything outside.

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