dax — cross-platform shell tools for Deno and Node.js
Dax is a cross-platform shell tool designed for Deno and Node.js, providing a consistent scripting experience across different operating systems. It includes built-in commands and features that enhance usability, such as automatic argument escaping and structured output. Dax aims to simplify shell scripting while ensuring safety and portability without native dependencies.
- ▪Dax runs the same on macOS, Linux, and Windows, offering common commands for better compatibility.
- ▪It automatically escapes template literal interpolations to prevent shell-injection bugs.
- ▪Dax includes features like prompts, progress bars, and an immutable Path API, all in pure TypeScript and WebAssembly.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Dax |
| Canonical URL | https://dax.land/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 22:08:03 -0500 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-30T03:41:55.382Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-30T03:41:55.382Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | ItwZllz-nnjh |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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v0.48.2 dax — shell scriptingthat runs the same everywhere. Cross-platform shell tools for Deno and Node.js inspired by zx — a friendlier $ for spawning processes, with a built-in shell, built-in commands, prompts, requests, and a Path API. JSR@david/dax npmdax Get started Shell reference Star on GitHub import $ from "dax"; $.logStep("Building"); await $`deno task build`; const env = await $.select({ message: "Where to?", options: ["staging", "production"], }); const branch = await $`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`.text(); $.logLight(`Deploying ${branch} → ${env.value}`); await $.all([ $`deno task deploy ${env.value} api`, $`deno task deploy ${env.value} web`, ]); $.logStep("Deployed"); Highlights # Cross-platform shell Same shell on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
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