Editing Tools

[DavidSouther]

Explore alternative approaches to editing tool calling. The first goal is that Ailly will be able to apply and undo edits to larger source code files; the second goal is for Ailly to execute those files and iterate on the execution output.

• https://python.langchain.com/docs/modules/model_io/chat/function_calling
• https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/functions-external-tools
• https://medium.com/@zeek.granston/function-calling-with-anthropic-claude-and-amazon-bedrock-c6eda7358b0f

[DavidSouther]

Add an edit mode. Requires a prompt.

1. Load context.
2. Include lines (eg 10 to 21).
3. Create a final user message with "Provide an edit to {{filename}}. The current contents is {{extracted contents}}. {{prompt}}"
4. Extract the response.
5. Replace the given lines with the response.

???s:

• Get models to only return the new text.
• Trust the returned edits.

Lines: [start]:[end] 1-based, inclusive start, exclusive end. [start] is "insert after", :[end] is "insert before".

ailly hello.js --edit --lines 10 --prompt "Say hi again"
ailly hello.js --edit --lines $(ailly hello.js --find --prompt "bar") --prompt "foo"
ailly hello.js --edit --section "bar" --prompt "foo"
ailly hello.js --find < bar.txt