26 Unix tools. One binary. Zero dependencies. · the missing coreutils for the agent era · vrk mcp - expose all 26 tools to any AI agent · curl vrk.sh/install.sh | sh - ready in 5 seconds · 26 Unix tools. One binary. Zero dependencies. · the missing coreutils for the agent era · vrk mcp - expose all 26 tools to any AI agent · curl vrk.sh/install.sh | sh - ready in 5 seconds

Retry flaky API call

Transient 500s don't kill the pipeline - coax retries with backoff so one bad request doesn't stop the run.

Wrap an LLM prompt in coax for exponential backoff retries.

Pipeline

vrk coax --times 3 --backoff exp:1s --on 1 -- vrk prompt --system "Summarise this" < doc.txt

Tools used

coax prompt