Auto-detect and prefer user-installed CLI tools over built-in
- Dominant language
- Shell
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Description
### Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve
The agent has no mechanism to discover equivalent tools on PATH to either opt for them first or use them as a fallback. It continues with a failing or inferior tool
### Proposed solution
- Reduces friction
- Reduces wasted turns
- It uses the tools that I use so I can easily trace what happened
### Example prompts or workflows
- "Find all usages of interface across this repo"
- "Lint all the modified typescript files"
- "Search this project for todo comments and summarize them"
- "Run tests for this module/component. Iterate until they pass"
- "Find all files larger than 1 mb in this directory and sub directories
### Additional context
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Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue does not identify files, tests, or entry points for PATH discovery and tool preference. Start by locating the CLI's built-in tool definitions and command execution flow; done means equivalent user-installed tools can be discovered and preferred or used as fallbacks for the listed workflows.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell
- Domain
- cli, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100