Building Ai Agents with Shell Scripts
summary
Builds a working AI agent entirely in shell scripts using Nushell and a Couchbase-backed vector store, calling the OpenAI chat API (temperature 0) and handling tool-call messages, JSON and streaming via curl. Implements function definitions, a looped reasoning cycle that executes returned tool calls, recursive parameter resolution and a stop condition; demo runs on Windows, executes local CLI tools (even plays a sound) and returns correct numeric results.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 2:59What is an AI agent
- 9:34Tool-using models
- 11:21Introducing Nushell
- 16:46Live agent demo
- 25:08Building an agent in Nushell
- 31:22Loop and execution flow
- 33:10Conclusion and Q&A
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