Patchloom – structured file edits for AI agents (CLI and MCP)
Patchloom is a single-binary CLI that gives AI coding agents safe, structured file editing on any operating system. It edits JSON, YAML, and TOML by selector (not regex), preserves comments, understands code structure across 20 languages, batches multiple file edits into one tool call, and works identically on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Default MCP filesystem servers read/write files as text.
- ▪Patchloom is a single-binary CLI that gives AI coding agents safe, structured file editing on any operating system.
- ▪It edits JSON, YAML, and TOML by selector (not regex), preserves comments, understands code structure across 20 languages, batches multiple file edits into one tool call, and works identically on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
- ▪Default MCP filesystem servers read/write files as text.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 4,096 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/patchloom/patchloom |
| Publication time | Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:41:39 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-08T17:45:42.038Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-08T17:45:42.038Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | nvSE7wIWfjU1 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Patchloom One binary. Every platform. Structured file edits for AI agents. Patchloom is a single-binary CLI that gives AI coding agents safe, structured file editing on any operating system. It edits JSON, YAML, and TOML by selector (not regex), preserves comments, understands code structure across 20 languages, batches multiple file edits into one tool call, and works identically on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Not a generic filesystem MCP. Default MCP filesystem servers read/write files as text. Patchloom adds dry-run previews, parser-backed config and markdown edits, AST ops, multi-file batch/tx with undo, and stable error_kind peels for hosts. Full coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) own the loop; Patchloom is the tool layer they (or a Rust embedder) call.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.