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by regularfry4 hours ago |
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upvoteby ytjohn3 hours ago|
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Confirming that Pi can definitely handles this. I've written a harness "factotum" based on pi just for managing my homelab and my radio club's systems. Has absolutely no issue sshing into things remotely, running ansible/helm/kubectl/talosctl commands.

There's a few skills, a and an extension to switch inventory. The extension is only needed because I want to switch between the two organizations. It's pretty slick. One of my use cases was just getting my homelab under control. So one of the first tasks I gave it was to go find everything that's running on these hosts, system services, docker compose, kube pods, etc. Builds an inventory, memory, todos.

Switches the script from "ai helps me launch more experiments to lose track of" to "organized and back under config management".

  .pi/factotum/
  ├── active-profile
  ├── profiles
  │   ├── club
  │   │   ├── config.yaml
  │   │   ├── inventory
  │   │   │   └── hosts.yaml
  │   │   └── todos
  │   │       ├── 22a094a3.md
  │   │       ├── 427ad844.md
  │   │       ├── 4c185be7.md
  │   │       ├── 4d0eea0f.md
  │   │       └── bcf069a4.md
  │   ├── examples
  │   │   ├── config.yaml
  │   │   └── inventory
  │   │       └── hosts.yaml
  │   └── local
  │       ├── config.yaml
  │       ├── inventory
  │       │   └── hosts.yaml
  │       ├── memories
  │       │   ├── axel-services.md
  │       │   ├── fran-mydiffuser.md
  │       │   ├── fran-services.md
  │       │   ├── ruffclus-cluster.md
  │       │   └── ruffclus-paperless-ngx.md
  │       └── todos
  │           ├── 0f7fd63e.md
  │           ├── 75c82ceb.md
  │           ├── 9cb63594.md
  │           ├── af33e08f.md
  │           ├── ba490542.md
  │           ├── c09c144f.md
  │           ├── c5f7f8a8.md
  │           └── d4c4b287.md
  ├── schemas
  │   ├── PROJECT_ARCHITECTURE.md
  │   └── project-architecture.yaml
  ├── task-templates
  │   └── host-audit.yaml
  └── tools
      └── host_audit_runner.sh
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upvoteby iib2 hours ago|
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How do you use `pi` to ssh? I use `oh-my-pi`, and tried the `/ssh` command, but I couldn't get it to work. Then I saw a suggestion somewhere to just run `!ssh` to place things into the agent's context.

Is there a way to use it like "The current directory is at `ssh server`" and have the agent work from there?

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upvoteby embedding-shape3 hours ago|
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Most if not every agent has access to bash or similar, which ssh typically is available. You don't need any bloated skills or anything, as long as you include `host is available via user@10.55` or whatever, and you have authentication properly setup, it'll figure it out.
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upvoteby cyanydeez2 hours ago|
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so, to be clear, is it just doing random bash commands to runn ssh or is it a actual tool, eg, node-ssh command interface.

i would not trust bash execution of SSH because it can easily hallucinate local commands instead of remote.

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upvoteby JeremyNT1 hours ago|
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Background: I use OpenCode to do this.

Just tell it to use ssh from the shell. From there you can give it extra context to describe the target (if you know/care about it), or just let it loose and if the environment doesn't have what it expects it will "figure something out" - just the same as with your local env.

If there's some least common denominator you know about e.g. python it can streamline things if you tell it to just use that for everything.

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upvoteby hrimfaxi1 hours ago|
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> i would not trust bash execution of SSH because it can easily hallucinate local commands instead of remote.

Why would it be more likely to hallucinate local commands instead of remote commands if it is in an active SSH session?

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