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 ## Ideas
 
-### Tooling & Integration
-
-**Unix tools** — pipe `chat` into `grep`, `awk`, `sed`. Diff two sessions' outputs. Log conversations with `cp`. Search history across sessions with `grep -r`.
-
-**Editor integration** — any editor that can read/write files gets agent access for free. In `acme` or `sam`, you write to `prompt` and read back `chat` with no plugin required. Fits naturally into the Plan 9 workflow.
-
-**Lightweight TUI alternatives** — `watch cat state` as a status bar, `tail -f chat` in one pane, prompt submission in another. Compose a working interface entirely from standard tools.
-
 ### Network & Remote Access
 
 **Store federation** — because `FlatDirStore` and other stores operate purely on filesystem paths, pointing a store at a 9pfuse-mounted remote directory is indistinguishable from pointing it at a local one. Federation requires no new implementation — just env vars:
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 ## Alternative front-ends
 
-The `s/sh` shell and `b/*` scripts are the lowest-level interface to ollie. Two higher-level front-ends are available:
+The 9P filesystem is the lowest level interface to ollie. All interfaces are simply wrappers around filesystem operations, and `s/sh` is the standard chat interface. A couple of other front-ends are also provided:
 
-- **[ollie-tui](https://github.com/lneely/ollie-tui)** — terminal UI with a readline loop, split input, and output rendering. The reference interactive front-end.
-- **[ellie](https://github.com/lneely/ollie-el)** — Emacs front-end with a chat buffer, prompt composition, interrupt handling, and session management.
+- **[ollie-tui](https://github.com/lneely/ollie-tui)** — a fancier terminal UI for the less curmudgeonly
+- **[ellie](https://github.com/lneely/ollie-el)** — `ellie.el` is the Emacs front-end, just wire it into your `init.el` and `M-x ellie`
 
-Both speak directly to the ollie-9p filesystem — no separate protocol. See each repo's README for installation and usage.
+See each repo's README for installation and usage.