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Agents Unix — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

This file settles which parts of the Unix philosophy mlsynth follows, which it re-implements in a different medium, and which it refuses.

How to install Agents Unix

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jgreathouse9-mlsynth-agents_unix.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jgreathouse9/mlsynth/HEAD/agents/agents_unix.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jgreathouse9-mlsynth-agents_unix.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Agents Unix does

agents_unix.md

The Unix Philosophy in `mlsynth`

This file settles which parts of the Unix philosophy `mlsynth` follows, which it re-implements in a different medium, and which it refuses. It exists so that "that isn't very Unix" stops being a matter of taste and becomes a citation.

The source is Raymond, *The Art of Unix Programming* (Addison-Wesley, 2003), chapter 1, which collects McIlroy's 1978 summary, Pike's *Notes on C Programming*, and the seventeen rules abstracted from what the U

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