What can Pikkumies do beyond the seedbox?

The tools Pikkumies ships with are for running a seedbox, but the agent itself is general. Anything you would do yourself over SSH, you can ask it to do.

Scripts

"Write me a script that renames every .mkv file in a folder to lowercase with dots instead of spaces, and explain how to run it safely." It writes the script, tests it on throwaway files, makes a dry run the default and says what it left behind. Read the script before you run it on real files.

Explanations

  • "Explain this config file."
  • "What does this error in my log mean?"
  • "Summarise the last hour of this log."

It reads the file in your account and explains it in plain words.

Writing

"Write a README for my script." "Draft a cron line that runs this every night at three." It reads what is there and writes the file or the line for you to check.

Scheduled jobs

It can set up jobs that run on a schedule, through the once-a-minute line in your crontab. In a scheduled job nobody is there to say yes, so actions it would normally ask about are refused unless you once answered "always" for that exact command. Scheduled jobs run the agent, so they use AI credits each time they run.

Learning

Ask it how something works on Linux, why a command behaves the way it does, or what a better way would be. It is a patient colleague with a terminal.

The agent can be wrong, so check what it proposes and keep backups. More: Pikkumies on PMSS. Other ways to use your credits: What can I do with AI credits on my seedbox?

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