ashlr__bash

Token-efficient bash execution. Auto-compresses long stdout, summarizes common commands, refuses catastrophic patterns.

Server: ashlr-bash — servers/bash-server.ts

A token-efficient replacement for Claude Code's built-in Bash tool. Long stdout is auto-compressed; common commands like git log, ls, and npm list return compact structured summaries instead of raw output. Catastrophic patterns (rm -rf /, DROP TABLE, etc.) are refused before execution. stderr is never compressed — errors always reach the agent intact.

Tools exposed

Tool	Description
`ashlr__bash`	Run a command and return compressed output
`ashlr__bash_start`	Start a long-running process in the background
`ashlr__bash_stop`	Stop a background process by ID
`ashlr__bash_tail`	Tail output from a background process
`ashlr__bash_list`	List all running background processes

Input schema — ashlr__bash

Field	Type	Required	Description
`command`	`string`	yes	Shell command to execute
`cwd`	`string`	no	Working directory (default: cwd)
`timeout`	`number`	no	Timeout in ms (default: 30000)
`description`	`string`	no	Human-readable label shown in the status line

Output format

Returns stdout (compressed if over threshold) followed by stderr if non-empty:

$ git log --oneline -20
abc1234 feat: add genome propose loop
def5678 fix: snip threshold off-by-one
...
[truncated — 847 additional lines]

Example

Use ashlr__bash to run: git log --oneline -50

ashlr__diff — token-efficient git diff, more structured than raw bash
ashlr__logs — read log files with severity filtering

Tools exposed

Input schema — ashlr__bash

Output format

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