cliff-cli 0.0.3

Generate Unix commands in the terminal

Cliff

Cliff (Command Line InterFace Friend) is an AI assistant that helps you come up with Unix commands. Given an objective (for example, "kill the process running on port 8080"), Cliff will generate a command that does the objective and add it to your clipboard for you to easily paste into your terminal.

Why?

It's annoying having to open the browser when I forget how to do something in the terminal.

Requirements

• Python >= 3.9
• A valid API key from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Cohere, Groq, Replicate, Mistral, or Cerebras.
• A Unix-like operating system

Installation

You can install Cliff with homebrew:

brew tap pkelaita/cliff
brew install cliff

Or with pip:

pip install cliff-cli

Configuration

Add your LLM provider API credentials as follows:

cliff --config add [provider] [api key]

The provider can be any of openai, anthropic, google, cohere, groq, replicate, mistral, or cerebras.

For a full overview of the configuration system, run cliff --config help, and for a full list of supported models for each provider, see L2M2's docs.

Usage

Get started by running cliff with an objective.

cliff kill the process running on port 8080

Cliff will automatically add the command to your paste buffer, so no need to copy-paste it.

If needed (i.e., to avoid escaping special characters), you can use quotes.

cliff "kill the process that's running on port 8080"

If you want to specify which model to use, you can do so with the --model flag.

cliff --model gpt-4o-mini kill the process running on port 8080

You can set the default model with cliff --config default-model [model].

Recalling Command Outputs:

Optionally, you can share commands you've ran and their outputs with Cliff to help it debug and improve its responses.

• To run a command and store its output for Cliff, run cliff -r <command> or cliff --recall <command>.
• To view all recalled commands and their outputs, run cliff --view-recall or cliff -vr.
• To clear Cliff's recall storage, run cliff --clear-recall or cliff -cr.

To view the man page, run cliff with no arguments.

That's it! It's pretty simple which is the point.

Planned Features

• Chat mode with sliding memory
• Support for Ollama (I need to update L2M2 for this)
• Other features as they come to mind