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autocomplete-sh

Large language model in the terminal! Less `--help` and `man` and more getting stuff done

2Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
162GitHub stars
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Large language model in the terminal! Less `--help` and `man` and more getting stuff done

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I also have a similar tool called https://autocomplete.sh https://github.com/closedloop-technologies/autocomplete-sh I really just wanted the feeling of tab-based auto-complete to just work in the terminal. It turns out that getting the LLM responses to 'play nice' with the expected format for bash_completion was a bit of a challenge, but once that worked, I could wrap all the LLMS (OpenAI, grok, Claude, local ones like Ollama) I also put some additional info in the context window to make it smarter: a password-sanitized recent history, which environmental variables are set, and data from `--help` of relevant commands. I've just started to promote it around the Boston area and people seem to enjoy it.
In Show HN: Ell – A command-line interface for LLMs written in Bash
I hate trying to build something quickly and forgetting the syntax, "How do I resize a video in ffmpeg?" or "create an postgres docker container with all right environment variables and ports set". So I built autocomplete.sh. It supports OpenAI, Grok, Claude and Local models like Ollama. Just install, select the model, enter API key and then when you type <tab><tab> it will return 3-5 suggestions on ways to do the task. It puts into the context window things like recent command history, which environment variables are set (not the values!) and what type of shell it is so that the results are tailored. I do also try to remove things that look like passwords to keep the prompt free of PII. I also like that you can run locally using ollama or run things extremely fast (and free!) using Grok. The script is GPT wrapper written entirely in
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bash and so it can be extremely portable. It was fun to build and I recently showed it around the Boston Startup scene and people liked it. So I wanted to share it here before the weekend! Check out the landing page: https://autocomplete.sh Or the code: https://github.com/closedloop-technologies/autocomplete-sh
In Show HN: Autocomplete.sh in the shell to trigger LLM based bash_complete

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