agedum 0.14.0

Drive any agent CLI from an agent-neutral source shape (AGENTS.md + .agents/skills), translating per harness at launch.

agedum

Latin agedum — "go on! / get going!"

Drive any agent CLI from an agent-neutral source shape, translating per harness at launch. You keep one set of sources; agedum renders them for whichever agent CLI you run.

• Instructions live in a root AGENTS.md (plain markdown).
• Skills live in .agents/skills/<name>/ as SKILL.md (+ optional task files, scripts, and a per-harness SKILL.<harness>.md overlay).

agedum has two modes:

• agedum <provider-name|config.json> [harness args] — the primary form. Read a provider config JSON (a name resolved under ~/.config/agents/providers, or a path), resolve its secrets from a .env, set the provider/model/auth environment, and launch the harness named in the config — inside the virtual-file context below. --prompt "<text>" seeds an initial prompt and stays interactive; --run "<text>" runs it non-interactively and exits. --dry-run prints the resolved env (secrets masked) + argv without launching.
• agedum --wrapper <harness> -- <command> — compile the source to the harness's native layout in a throwaway dir, then run your command inside a private mount namespace (bubblewrap) where the compiled files appear at their expected paths — visible only to that process, never written into your real tree or $HOME. For Claude: AGENTS.md → CLAUDE.md and .agents/skills/<name>/ → .claude/skills/<name>/ (the base SKILL.md merged with an optional SKILL.claude.md overlay). Provider mode runs this same launch after setting the environment.

Status: Claude harness, project + global scope, implemented. Each scope lands at its own Claude location — project → ./CLAUDE.md + ./.claude/skills/, global (~/.config/agents/AGENTS.md + ~/.agents/skills/) → ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md

• ~/.claude/skills/ (honours $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR). They're never merged; Claude reads both. Only those two ~/.claude paths are overlaid for the child — your ~/.claude.json auth and other settings are untouched.

kimi (--wrapper kimi) is also supported. kimi reads the project AGENTS.md natively, so agedum leaves it in place; it has no user-scope AGENTS.md, so the global AGENTS.md is injected via a transient --agent-file YAML (no --agent-file is added when there's no global scope). Skills are binds: global → ~/.kimi/skills/, project → ./.kimi/skills/ (both auto-read by kimi).

opencode (--wrapper opencode) is supported too — pure path-discovery, like Claude. The project AGENTS.md is read natively (./AGENTS.md); the global AGENTS.md binds to ~/.config/opencode/AGENTS.md; skills bind to ./.opencode/skills/ (project) and ~/.config/opencode/skills/ (global), both searched before .agents/skills/ so the overlaid copy wins. No extra flags. Wrapper mode is Linux-only and requires bwrap on PATH.

Cline (--wrapper cline) is supported as well — like opencode, pure path-discovery. The project AGENTS.md is read natively (Cline reads it as a cross-tool rules file); the global AGENTS.md binds to the cross-tool path ~/.agents/AGENTS.md; skills bind to ./.cline/skills/ (project) and ~/.cline/skills/ (global, $CLINE_DATA_DIR-aware). No extra flags. Cline is wrapper-mode only — it has no documented env interface for provider mode to drive.

Usage

# Provider mode — launch a harness from a provider config, env resolved from .env:
agedum claude-deepseek-auto                       # resolve the named provider, launch claude
agedum claude-deepseek-auto -p "review this"      # extra args go to the harness
agedum claude-deepseek-auto --prompt "review this"  # seed an initial prompt, stay interactive
agedum claude-deepseek-auto --run "review this"     # run the prompt non-interactively, then exit
agedum ./providers/my-claude.json                 # a config path instead of a name
agedum claude-deepseek-auto --dry-run             # print resolved env, virtual files + argv

# Wrapper mode (low-level; provider mode builds on it) — virtual files, no provider env:
agedum --wrapper claude -- claude --model sonnet -p "review this"
agedum --wrapper cline -- cline task "review this"  # drive Cline with the same source
agedum --wrapper claude --dry-run -- claude       # list what would be injected, don't run

agedum --version

agedum <name> is the normal way to launch. Wrapper mode is the lower-level entry it uses: everything after -- is the command, run verbatim, and --wrapper <harness> chooses the format; --dry-run prints the injected virtual files without running. Injected paths must be gitignored — agedum refuses to overlay a git-tracked file (the namespace shares your real .git).

Documentation

Full docs at agedum.vcoeur.com:

• Source shape — the structure of AGENTS.md and .agents/skills/
• Scopes — project vs global (user) scope, and where each lands
• Harnesses — exactly what agedum does for each --wrapper <harness>
• Provider mode — launch a harness from a provider config JSON
• CLI reference and Internals — the mount-namespace launch and its safety rules

Install

pipx install agedum        # standalone CLI (once published)

Develop

make dev-install   # uv sync --all-groups
make test          # pytest
make lint          # ruff check + format --check
make run -- --version
make docs          # build the docs site (strict); docs-serve for live preview

Python ≥ 3.12, managed with uv. The version is derived from the git tag (vX.Y.Z) at build time via hatch-vcs — never committed.

Release

Tag the commit vX.Y.Z and push the tag; the release workflow builds and publishes to PyPI via OIDC trusted publishing.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.