Dagger Shell: Reimagining the Unix Command Line

Dagger Shell is a bash-syntax frontend for the Dagger Engine, a state-of-the-art runtime and composition system. It combines the best ideas from Docker, Make, PowerShell, and Nix, simplifying modern software development workflows. With native support for containers, secrets, and service endpoints; typed objects; declarative execution; and content-addressed artifacts, Dagger Shell streamlines builds, tests, ephemeral environments, deployments, and more. It even facilitates AI agent orchestration. The core philosophy is modularity and composability, aiming to reduce complex tasks to simple shell scripts and code, eliminating the need for numerous DSLs.