y-cli 0.3.5

Command-line real-time conversation app

y-cli 🚀

A tiny command-line interface chat application that brings AI conversations to your terminal.

✨ Features

• 📝 All chat data stored in single JSONL files for easy access and sync
• 💬 Interactive chat interface
• 🤖 Support for multiple bot configurations (any base_url/api_key/model combination compatible with OpenAI chat completion streaming format)
• 🤔 Deepseek-r1 reasoning content support for enhanced AI responses
• 🔗 MCP (Model Context Protocol) client support with multiple server configurations

Demo

Interactive chat

Multiple bot configurations

➜  ~ y-cli bot list
Name     API Key      Base URL             Model                Print Speed    Description    OpenRouter Config    MCP Servers
-------  -----------  -------------------  -------------------  -------------  -------------  -------------------  -------------
default  sk-or-v1...  https://gateway....  anthropic/claude...  60             N/A            Yes                  todo, tavily
gemini   sk-or-v1...  https://gateway....  google/gemini-2....  60             N/A            Yes                  No
ds-chat  sk-or-v1...  https://gateway....  deepseek/deepsee...  60             N/A            Yes                  No
ds-r1    sk-or-v1...  https://gateway....  deepseek/deepsee...  60             N/A            Yes                  No
qc-r1    QC-3cce2...  https://maas.qc-...  DeepSeek-R1          60             N/A            No                   No

Reasoning content

asciicast

MCP client

asciicast

Multiple MCP servers

➜  ~ y-cli mcp list
Name    Command    Arguments                                Environment
------  ---------  ---------------------------------------  ---------------------------------------
todo    uvx        mcp-todo
tavily  npx        -y tavily-mcp                            TAVILY_API_KEY=tvly-api-key...
pplx    node       /Users/mac/src/researcher-mcp/build/...  PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=pplx-api-key...

⚡ Quick Start

Prerequisites

Required:

1. uv
2. OpenRouter API key

Setup Instructions:

1. uv

   • Follow the official installation guide
   • uv will automatically manage Python installation

2. OpenRouter API key

   • Visit OpenRouter Settings
   • Create a new API key
   • Save it for the initialization step

Run without Installation

uvx y-cli

Install with uv tool

uv tool install y-cli

Initialize

y-cli init

Start Chat

y-cli chat

🛠️ Usage

y-cli [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Commands

• chat Start a new chat conversation or continue an existing one
• list List chat conversations with optional filtering
• share Share a chat conversation by generating a shareable link
• bot Manage bot configurations:
  • add Add a new bot configuration
  • list List all configured bots
  • delete Delete a bot configuration
• mcp Manage MCP server configurations:
  • add Add a new MCP server configuration
  • list List all configured MCP servers
  • delete Delete an MCP server configuration

Options

• --help Show help message and exit