user@caretc:~$
system: online
caret-c:tooling-bay1:bench

user@caretc:~/tools$./inventory --status

┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ TOOLING BAY                          │
├──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ status ............ OPEN             │
│ mounted tools ..... 0                │
│ loose cables ...... YES              │
│ documentation ..... PENDING          │
│ confidence ........ PROBABLY FINE    │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘

INVENTORY INCOMPLETE

Joe is still deciding which pieces of experimental code deserve to be called tools and which are merely scripts that survived.

Nothing useful has been mounted here yet.

user@caretc:~/tools$find ../ -type f -useful

user@caretc:~/tools$

when the bench fills up

UTILITIES

Small tools that remove repeated manual work.

DATASETS

Generated and reproducible material for testing.

PROTOCOL TOOLS

Inspection and interaction around industrial systems.

DIAGNOSTICS

Narrow tools for understanding what a system is doing.

TEST HARNESSES

Repeatable environments for making things misbehave.

QUESTIONABLE CLIs

Command-line interfaces of varying respectability.