Preludes, Runtime and a language made for LLM

Loved how it circles back to Lisp

Clojure is indeed a good modern pick. If you don’t know it already, have a look at babashka, it’s “Clojure to replace bash scripts”, maybe that brings some inspiration.

Another nice Lisp/Scheme-derived language is Racket, which might be less “practical” but may also provide insights.

Thanks. Yes I do use Babashka as the oracle for Clojure conformance tests. Will check Racket.
Btw, there seems to be more devs that comes to the same conclusion regarding Lisp is a good fit, I learned about these today:
AgentScript

Every existing language was designed for human typists with fragile indentation. AgentScript is engineered from first principles for autonomous models: single-pass balanced S-expressions, zero syntax repair loops, 57%–65% token savings over JSON, and verified multi-target compilation into Wasm, Rust, TypeScript, and Python.

and sema-lang

For me the interesting thing is the BEAM runtime and what that allows the agents safely to do that human developers would never do (e.g. fan out 100+ REPLs)

Clojure is great but the JVM startup time is a tough pill to swallow for scripts. Maybe through another runtime, or if they began compiling to native code like Racket does, then it’d be worth another look.

Have a look at babashka.