Show HN: A tiny (480 LOC) AI coding assistant for your shell

3 points by n_kr a day ago

Hi HN. This is a script I have been using for some time for coding tasks, which I have polished a bit and published.

The motivation behind this script was to have an agent with persistent session which I can use from the shell like a regular command. It _can_ also be scripted, although I don't use it in such a way.

The script uses a minimal prompt, which just tells it to use standard unix tools to do everything. I was surprised at how well it worked, when using a good model. Qwen3-coder is on openrouter, and it works well with the minimal instructions. I also tested qwen2.5-coder with ollama and that works well too.