Show HN: Magic-cli – A copilot for your command line

Default mode should probably not be “unsafe-execution” but instead should be “clipboard”. Make people turn on the unsafe mode.

Huh, and I'm here running llama 3 locally (and claude.ai for less complex stuff), asking well formatted and specific questions and still adjusting the output before implementing it.

Besides I need .sh scripts not just cli completion.

But this reminds me of warp. Gonna have to give it a spin in the morning.

I've been using https://github.com/tom-doerr/zsh_codex with gpt4-o and it saves a lot of strokes as compared to github copilot cli to query, since I just have to press ctrl-x in addition to the prompt.

Magic-cli also seems to be using same workflow as github copilot, so I'm not rushing to use it.

There is also https://github.com/TNG/please-cli

Beware the pitfalls of yesteryear: <http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html>

Neat. How does it compare to https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/ ?

This is nice. I've been taking Termium[0] for a spin and it's been pretty great for the most part, but the Rumsfeld-complete always-on autosuggest/copilot UX they're aiming for does feel like a bit of a compromise.

On occasions when I do know what I don't know, and want to specifically opt in, this looks perfect.

[0]: https://codeium.com/blog/termium-codeium-in-terminal-launch

I have a single Bash function called "please" that basically does the same thing

https://github.com/pmarreck/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/functio...

My version called "gencmd" also has a web page, supports multiple models, and also has org+groups support. Please try it out - would love your feedback. https://gencmd.com/

Can I ask why it's so complicated? I made something similar about a year ago and it's less that 150 lines of Python. Gives you an explanation, option to run it with/without sudo, pretty colors, etc.

I guess I'm not very familiar with Rust but it just seems like a lot for what it does.

I've never seen this extra measure "curl --proto '=https' ..."

I got stuck on setting the ollama.embedding_model. No clue what to do.

How's the latency?

I'll bet this was a lot of fun to make. Very cool project.

Was there any particular motive for building your own over using something that's been around a bit longer like aichat?

https://github.com/sigoden/aichat

I'm not affiliated with it, but I've been using the Warp terminal program for a few months now and suspect that if you're interested in this kind of thing, you might like that too.

In short, besides the obvious AI stuff, which works well:

- You can edit the command line as though it's in a GUI program (including with mouse, etc) instead of it being inside the terminal where you need to use different keybindings and no mouse.

- When in a shell, instead of your window being one long stream of text, each command and each output is a discrete area, so it's easier to, say, select the whole output of a command.

We as a computing populace are getting more and more comfortable with footguns.

I use https://github.com/simonw/llm-cmd

Funny, i recently build something really similar ^^

https://github.com/voodooEntity/go-clibuddy

All of these solutions seemed very heavyweight in my usage. I wanted something that fit within my existing flow and using copilot.vim, EDITOR=nvim, C-x C-e was the solution for me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40911564

It's very composable and I can do incremental work with it.

The general concept is limited "command line" as means of giving a single agent agency without the need to program every integration separatively.

The AGI version is "command line" also enabling the agents to communicate, modify, make each other.

https://github.com/KillianLucas/open-interpreter/ is my preferred implementation of approximately the same thing