clai integrates the OpenAI models with the terminal. You can generate images, text, summarize content and chat while using native terminal functionality, such as pipes and termination signals.

• OpenAI API Key: Set the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable to your OpenAI API key. See here: OpenAI API Key.
• Glow (Optional): Install Glow for formatted markdown output when querying text responses.

go install github.com/baalimago/clai@latest

Simple queries:

clai query My favorite color is blue, tell me some facts about it

clai -re `# Use the -re flag to use the previous query as context for some next query` \
    q Write a poem about my favorite colour 

Personally I have alias ask=clai q and then alias rask=clai -re q. This way I can ask -> rask -> rask for a temporary conversation.

Chatting:

clai chat new Lets have a conversation about Hegel

clai chat list `# List all your chats`

clai c continue 1 `# Continue some previous chat` 

Glob queries:

clai --raw `                    # Don't format output as markdown` \
    --chat-model gpt-3.5-turbo `# Use some other model` \
    glob '*.go' Generate a README for this project > README.md

Photos:

printf "flowers" | clai -i --photo-prefix=flowercat --photo-dir=/tmp photo "A cat made out of {}"

Since -N alternatives are disabled for many newer OpenAI models, you can use repeater to generate several responses from the same prompt:

NO_COLOR=true repeater -n 10 -w 3 -increment -file out.txt -output BOTH \
    clai -pp flower_INC p A cat made of flowers

clai help `# For more info about the available commands (and shorthands)`

On initial run, clai will create configuration files at $HOME/.clai/, one for photo and one for chat/text. Here you can configure initial prompts, temperature and other settings.

Within $HOME/.clai/conversations you'll find all the conversations. You can also modify the chats here as a way to prompt, or create entirely new ones as you see fit.

This project is heavily inspired by: https://github.com/Licheam/zsh-ask, many thanks to Licheam for the inspiration.