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Comment by iririririr | Hacker News Reader

   echo "$OUT" | claude-mem-save

so, does agents are ultra aware their output is used in a bash line or did bash now have some magic quote super power?

I'd bet this only really work 2% of the time in real world.

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At the shell level, the agent does not need to know about Bash. The contents of "$OUT" are passed to echo as one argument, then sent to claude-mem-save over stdin. Bash does not re-evaluate them as shell code. printf '%s\n' "$OUT" would be more robust than echo. Whether claude-mem-save can use arbitrary output is a separate question.

there are a million ways both of those can break.

but the other comment point this out is already dead and buried. lol. so much cope from vibecoders.

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