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PAL Standard Lets AI Agents Control Physical Hardware via REPL
A 19-year-old developer proposes PAL, an open standard that lets AI agents control hardware directly through MicroPython REPL. The architecture uses a dual-core ESP32-S3, with a hard real-time core and a flexible MicroPython core for agent commands. This approach avoids complex tool registries by treating the REPL as the agent interface.
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Clever reuse of REPL as an agent interface could lower the barrier for AI-controlled hardware, but real-world reliability and security of running arbitrary Python on embedded devices remain unaddressed.
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