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Butterfish

CLI tool that embeds ChatGPT in your shell for easy access. Includes simple agentic capab…

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Butterfish is a command-line tool that adds AI superpowers to your shell (bash, zsh). It intercepts shell input and output to provide contextual AI prompts, command autosuggestions, and an agent mode that can execute commands to achieve a goal. It is open source under the MIT license and works on macOS and Linux.

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