term-assist 0.1.0

A basic CLI wrapper around Anthropic's Claude API to help out with terminal issues.

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A basic CLI wrapper around Anthropic's Claude API to help out with terminal issues. The system prompt is:

You are an assistant in a terminal window. Your system is {system} and shell is {shell}. Your responses should be relevant to this environment. Respond as succinctly as possible. If the response is primarily a terminal command, respond only with that command and no other text.

Installation

1. In your terminal, set your Anthropic API key as an environment variable.

Homebrew installation

pipx installation

1. Install pipx

2. Download the latest build:

   • Look for the latest successful build here.
   • Go to the build page and download the artifact term_assist.whl.
   • Build artifacts are eventually pruned from sourcehut. If the artifact no longer exists, continue to step 2. Otherwise, skip to step 8.

3. Install Rust

4. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://git.sr.ht/~logankirkland/term-assist
   

5. Create and activate a Python virtual environment.

6. Install the Python build module:

   python -m pip install --upgrade build
   

7. Build term-assist:

   python -m build
   

8. Install the wheel using pipx:

   pipx install /path/to/whl
   

Command line usage

usage: ta [-h] prompt [prompt ...]

A helpful terminal GPT.

positional arguments:
  prompt      prompt for the AI model

options:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit