Álvaro Ramírez has a new Bending Emacs video up. This time it’s about his agent-shell app that serves as uniform Emacs interface to LLM agents supporting the Agent Client Protocol (ACP).
I’m not interested in LLM technology so you almost never see an Irreal post about it. I don’t know—and therefore have no opinion on—if it’s something real or just another venture capitalist fever dream. Still, if you are interested in LLMs, it’s nice to have an app like agent-shell that provides a uniform interface to most (all?) of them.
There’s a huge number of options and details to negotiate so an app like agent-shell is a real boon. Almost none of those options involve picking which shell you want to use. You simply choose one from a list of supported shells and work within that shell for the rest of your session.
There are way too many details for me to cover here. The video itself is 36 minutes, 34 seconds so there’s a lot of content to cover. If you are interested in LLMs, and especially if you use more than one, you should definitely watch this video and download agent-shell. It’s available on Melpa so installation is easy. Like all of Ramírez’s work, agent-shell seems like a well engineered app and it’s free so you have nothing to lose by trying it.