My favorite part of this @gvwilson proposal: One flag, one meaning.

I don't think "a set of replacement tools" is possible or desirable on this timeline, but a normalization layer on top of legacy commands feels doable and I can point to a clear reason to do it.

When I observe tool calls in Bram on my Mac and on Windows I see different sets of legacy commands. On the transcript's surface you don't see raw commands, you see intents: "Check the authorization record" instead of "sed this" or "Get-Content that". But when you expand, you see platform-specific commands and it's jarring to see the same thing spelled differently on Mac vs Windows. It would be very cool for the first expansion to show standard spellings with a next expansion available to reveal the native ones.

I'd love for someone to contribute that feature to Bram!

https://third-bit.com/2026/11/13/rationalizing-the-command-line/