Ask How CLI

A CLI that converts natural language to shell commands using Ollama.

Installation

Requires:

• Python3.4+
• Ollama

git clone https://github.com/ColabDog/how-ai-cli.git
cd how-ai-cli
pip install .

Using Ask AI CLI

To use the AI CLI, ask "how" in front of the natural language query inside quotations.

how "List all files"

To generate automated commit messages:

how-commit

Design Considerations

Why not a "# List all files"?

• Often with CLI programs or instructions, many programs use "#" for commenting so I didn't end up choosing.

Why Ollama?

• Your CLI shouldn't be fed into into non-local models where possible. Ollama's development team is also fairly impressive in their delivery speed and quality of shipping making them a great tool choice.

Why not use instructor?

• Instructor did not really fit this use case as LLMs tend to be able to reliably produce bash code snippets with backticks.

Why not use online LLMs?

• There are alternative solutions that do this already.

Why not use LiteLLM?

• I liked the project but unfortunately it seemed a bit too unstable for this.