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# Introducing bash\-tool for filesystem\-based context retrieval **Published:** January 7, 2026 | **Authors:** Malte Ubl, Andrew Qu --- We open-sourced `bash-tool`, the Bash execution engine used by our text-to-SQL agent that we recently re-architected to reduce our token usage, improve the accuracy of the agent's responses, and improve the agent's overall performance. `bash-tool` gives your agent a way to find the right context by running bash-like commands over files, then returning onl...