ollie/contrib/scripts

scripts

Shell scripts for interacting with the ollie 9P filesystem. All scripts read OLLIE (default: $HOME/mnt/ollie) for the mount path.

mk scripts installs them and exposes them via the mounted filesystem, so they are available without any $PATH changes:

exec $OLLIE/s/sh              # start interactive shell
$OLLIE/s/ls                   # list sessions
$OLLIE/s/kill <id>            # kill a session
$OLLIE/s/bfg "my prompt"      # foreground one-shot query; blocks until done
$OLLIE/s/bbg "my prompt"      # background one-shot query; prints session path
$OLLIE/s/cleanup              # remove all idle sessions
$OLLIE/u/optimize "prompt"    # generate and return best optimized prompt

Scripts are organized by the filesystem namespace they are hosted under:

• s/ — session management and one-shot query scripts

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s/sh

Interactive chat interface for ollie sessions. Resumes the most recent session for the current directory by default; creates a new one if none exists.

s/sh [-new] [-resume] [-session ID] [-cwd DIR] [-backend B] [-model M] [-agent A]

Flags

Flag	Description
-new	Always create a new session
-resume	Resume last session for the cwd; error if none
-session ID	Attach to a specific session by ID
-cwd DIR	Working directory (default: pwd)
-backend B	Backend override (e.g. ollama, anthropic)
-model M	Model override
-agent A	Agent config name

Input

At the > prompt:

Input	Action
<text>	Submit prompt, stream response
/q <text>	Enqueue prompt for later
/<cmd>	Send to session ctl (e.g. /compact, /clear)
/kill	Kill the session and exit
Ctrl-C	Interrupt running turn (or exit if idle)

Examples

s/sh                          # resume or create session for pwd
s/sh -new -model gpt-4o       # fresh session with model override
s/sh -session 1745123456-abc  # attach to a specific session

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s/ls

List all active sessions.

s/ls

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s/kill

Kill a session by ID and remove it.

s/kill <id>

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s/bfg

Foreground one-shot query. Submits a prompt to a new session, blocks until the agent is done, writes the result to stdout, then removes the session. Exit code is non-zero on failure. Thin wrapper around s/b.

s/bfg [flags] [prompt...]
echo "prompt" | s/bfg [flags]

Accepts the same flags as s/b.

Examples

s/bfg "Summarize this repo in one sentence"
cat error.log | s/bfg "What is causing this error?"
s/bfg -output json "List the top 3 risks as JSON"
s/bfg -parallel 4 -keep "Write a haiku about filesystems"
s/bfg -backend ollama -model qwen3:8b "Explain this function" < main.go

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s/bbg

Background one-shot query. Submits a prompt to a new session and returns immediately; prints the s/{id} path for each job. Thin wrapper around s/b -bg.

s/bbg [flags] [prompt...]
echo "prompt" | s/bbg [flags]

Accepts the same flags as s/b.

Examples

path=$(s/bbg "write a limerick about Go")
until [ "$(cat $path/statewait)" = "idle" ]; do :; done
tail -c +$(($(cat $path/offset) + 1)) $path/chat

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s/b

Core one-shot runner. Submits a prompt to a new session, optionally waits, and handles parallel fan-out. s/bfg and s/bbg are both wrappers around this script.

s/b [flags] [prompt...]
echo "prompt" | s/b [flags]

Flags

Flag	Description
-name N	Base session name; sessions are suffixed -1, -2, ...
-cwd DIR	Working directory (default: pwd)
-agent A	Agent config name
-backend B	Backend override
-model M	Model override
-json	Append JSON-only instruction to prompt
-parallel N	Run the same prompt N times in parallel (default: 1)
-keep	Do not remove session(s) after printing result
-bg	Submit and exit immediately; prints session path(s); implies -keep
-failfast	On first failure, cancel remaining parallel jobs and exit

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s/cleanup

Remove all idle sessions.

s/cleanup

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u/optimize

Generates N candidate optimized prompts, judges them, and returns the best one to stdout. Debugging output (progress messages) goes to stderr.

u/optimize [flags] [prompt...]
echo "prompt" | u/optimize [flags]

Flags

Flag	Description
-n N	Number of candidates to generate (default: 3)
-cb B	Candidate generation backend
-cm M	Candidate generation model
-jb B	Judge backend
-jm M	Judge model

Examples

u/optimize "Summarize this document"
u/optimize -n 5 -cm qwen/qwen3-8b -jm anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 "Write a haiku"
u/optimize "generate a hello world program. use c++." >[2]/dev/null | s/bfg

Outputs to stdout, making it composable with other pipeline stages.

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x/elevate

Sandbox escape hatch invoked by shell when a command is marked elevated: true. The Landlock sandbox is enforced at the kernel level — restrictions apply regardless of user privileges within the sandboxed process. x/elevate is a generic client that forwards the command to an adapter running outside the sandbox, which executes it and returns the result.

x/elevate knows nothing about the backend. It connects to the socket at OLLIE_ELEVATE_SOCKET, sends {cmd, cwd}, and reads back {stdout, stderr, exit_code}. The adapter on the other end is backend-specific. Multiple adapters can coexist at different socket paths; switching backends is a single env var change.

Set OLLIE_ELEVATE_SOCKET in ~/.config/ollie/env. The default is $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/ollie/elevate.sock (falling back to /run/user/<uid>/ollie/elevate.sock), so this only needs to be set when using a non-default path:

OLLIE_ELEVATE_SOCKET=${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/ollie/elevate.sock

Protocol

x/elevate sends a newline-terminated JSON object and reads a JSON response:

→  {"cmd": "<shell command>", "cwd": "<working directory>"}\n
←  {"stdout": "...", "stderr": "...", "exit_code": 0}

Any process that listens on a Unix stream socket and speaks this protocol is a valid adapter.

Integrated elevation broker

As of 2026-07, elevation is handled by olliesrv's integrated broker (core/pkg/elevate). The broker listens on $OLLIE_ELEVATE_SOCKET and handles command execution with human-in-the-loop approval via desktop notifications. No external adapter or daemon is required.

Disabling elevation

Replace x/elevate with a script that exits non-zero. Steps marked elevated: true will fail rather than escape the sandbox:

#!/bin/sh
echo "elevation disabled" >&2
exit 1