Who
I wanted a shell-native agent that already knew my Zsh profile. Then I tore that harness out and put a Bun MCP controller in its place.
For operators who care about the honest split between a deleted Zsh THOUGHT/COMMAND loop and the HEAD Bun + OpenRouter + filesystem MCP stack under the same public repo name.
What
I built shagent, public https://github.com/michaelmonetized/shagent. HEAD 61ecd7d. 3 commits. 0 stars. Default main. package.json 1.0.0. README is 0 bytes.
At HEAD (Bun / TypeScript):
- Entry
./shagent(#!/usr/bin/env bun): requiresOPENROUTER_API_KEY; modelSHAGENT_MODELoropenrouter/free Shagentinsrc/controller/shagent.ts(~79 LOC): MCPClient+StdioClientTransportrunningnpx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystemonprocess.cwd()- OpenRouter
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completionsloop, max 15 turns - System prompt forces JSON:
{"action":"tool_name","args":{...}}or{"message":"..."}; regex scrape/{.*?}/gs;client.callTool - Sibling probe
src/controller/index.tslists tools fromnpx -y chrome-devtools-mcp; that probe is not what the CLI entry wires
Deleted on the Jun 22 rewrite (2ecb32f): src/shagent.sh, 258 lines of Zsh.
What that harness did (still recoverable from 0729083):
- Source
~/.zshenv/.zprofile/.zshrc+ optional.env - Session
-s/--session(defaultdefault) - Deps:
rg fd eza bat git jq curl … qmd mcp-cli - Response contract:
THOUGHT:/COMMAND:theneval - Optional async
qmd update/qmd embed - Same OpenRouter free default
Fiction still in-tree: index.html sells Launch, scale, and monitor autonomous AI agents with CTA to github.com/shagent/getting-started and footer Rusty P. Shackelford. Fiction only; no deploy; unwired to ./shagent.
Residue: stdout-test.txt (~116KB) is a shell-era OpenRouter request dump that still narrates Zsh + mcp-cli + qmd. Second nightly 61ecd7d is an empty commit (message only).
Sibling surfaces to keep straight: orclawstrator (OpenClaw Swift/Go command center), mission-control / hurley-mission-control. This public repo is local Bun + npx MCP or it does not run.
Where
Code: github.com/michaelmonetized/shagent, public.
Run (facts from entry): set OPENROUTER_API_KEY, optional SHAGENT_MODEL, then ./shagent 'task description' with Bun available. bun.lock present; no scripts block in package.json.
No live product URL. No claimed domain.
When
- 2026-05-26.
0729083init: empty README + Zsh harness - 2026-06-22 16:50 ET.
2ecb32fnightly: deletesrc/shagent.sh; add Bun controller, fiction HTML, stdout dump, uncap - 2026-06-22 17:56 ET.
61ecd7dnightly: empty tree diff; HEAD - Pack prepared 2026-09-08 ~4:55 PM ET (draft + assets only)
Why
I needed a minimal OpenRouter agent that could call tools. The Zsh version lived inside my shell profile. The Bun version talks MCP over stdio to a filesystem server and keeps the model choice on OpenRouter free by default. The marketing HTML and the empty README are the honesty tax sitting next to that loop.
Engagement: how many public agent repos still ship a fiction lander and a 0-byte README after deleting the shell harness that stdout-test.txt still describes?