ccline: AI at the zsh prompt — for developers who build terminal apps with Rich

[jianshuo]

Hey Rich community!

Rich users obviously care about terminal output quality. I built something that adds AI to the input side of the terminal.

It's ccline — natural language at the zsh prompt.

What it does

ccline hijacks zsh's command_not_found_handler. Type something that isn't a real command — a question, plain English, an intention — and it asks Claude AI. Answer renders as Markdown (with syntax highlighting) right in your terminal. Press Enter to run suggested commands.

$ show python package sizes sorted by size
→ pip list | xargs -I{} pip show {} | grep -E "Name:|Location:"
→ [press Enter to run]

$ watch a python script output in real time
→ python -u script.py | tee output.log
→ [press Enter to run]

$ find all Python files in project, count lines of code
→ find . -name '*.py' | xargs wc -l | sort -n
→ [press Enter to run]

No browser tabs — just type your question at the zsh prompt and get an answer.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jianshuo/ccline/main/install.sh | bash

Requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY.

→ https://github.com/jianshuo/ccline