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New Go library for agentic CLI patterns, directly applicable to multi-agent systems.
The article introduces ax-go, a Go package that standardizes CLI patterns for agentic use, born from the author's distributed tracing lessons and struggles with agent-unfriendly table outputs. It enforces stdout for structured data only, stderr for logs, W3C trace context propagation across gRPC boundaries, deterministic byte-identical output for agent diffing, a __schema command (with MCP adapter) for self-description, and safety primitives like idempotency keys and dry-run. Currently v0.1.0 with golden tests freezing output contracts, it integrates zerolog and OpenTelemetry, aiming to make CLIs as reliable for AI agents as for humans.