This page lists the features that yamsh should have in it. It is divided into sections, and within each, the features are arranged in roughly descending order of priority.

Command-line Interface

• Call an app
• Pass it arguments, switches, etc.
• Aliases
• Input/output redirection
• Pipelining
• Completion
• Automatic/interactive modes
• Jobs

Application framework?

• Python first, other languages later
• Automatic YAML parsing, loading
• Metadata
  • Version
  • Completions

System

• Environment variables
• XPath-like query language for YAML
• YAML-based configuration
• Common interface to various trees
  • Filesystem
  • Configuration

Standard tools recreation

• Builtins for manipulating system
• POSIX layer