In less than a week, we used Claude Code \u2014 Anthropic’s agentic command-line tool \u2014 to find and fix seven bugs in GNU Mach’s x86_64 SMP support, bringing the kernel test suite from 1\/11 passing to 14\/14 with two CPUs.<\/p>\n
Along the way, we built a task runner system to orchestrate multiple AI agents as background processes and tracked their work in SQLite. All of this ran on a $100\/month Claude subscription.<\/p>\n
The paper covers what AI agents are, the GNU Mach project context, how human-AI interactive sessions worked, the task runner architecture, a detailed walkthrough of all seven kernel bugs found and fixed, cost analysis, and reflections on what worked and what didn’t.<\/p>\n
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