gpt-cli

A simple command-line client to query the OpenAI GPT chat API.

Instructions

• Place the script from main/scripts/gpt-cli.sh into your path.
• Requires: bash, curl, jq, stdbuf, awk, sed, and other common tools
• Ensure gpt-cli.sh is executable.
• Feel free to rename it to something shorter or add an alias.
• It will ask you for your OpenAI API Key the first time and save it in the settings file.
• By default it uses $HOME/.chat/*, which should be created with permissions 700.
• To see your settings run gpt-cli.sh --settings
• The script will intialize your $HOME/.chat directory the first time you use it.
• Copy over (or create) additional files from instructions/* into $HOME/.chat/instructions
• The default chat ID will be 'default', use -id mychatid to change it.
• Recommend to keep chat IDs short (each chat is a directory under $HOME/.chat/chats).
• There isn't much error checking/user hand-holding.

Requirements

• Requires *nix commands like: bash, curl, jq, stdbuf, awk, sed, mkdir, ...
• If you don't have stdbuf you can provide a replacement using the CHAT_STDBUF environment variable (it will have to parse the arguments), but you may not get the full streaming effect

Usage

• Run gpt-cli.sh -h for usage help
• chat --instr assistant -id mathchat -c "what is 1+1?" -id geekchat -c "what is a disturginator?" --instr author -id bookchat what book should I write next?