IntelliHelper CLI (intelli / intellihelper)

IntelliHelper CLI is a terminal-based AI coding agent. It runs as a full-screen TUI that understands your codebase, edits files, executes shell commands, searches the web, and manages long-running tasks — interactively, headlessly for scripting/CI, or embedded in editors via the Agent Client Protocol (ACP).

Installing the released binary · Updating · Building from source · Documentation · Repository layout · Development · Contributing · License

Install & downloads: cli.intellihelper.in

This repository contains the Rust source for the IntelliHelper CLI/TUI and its agent runtime. Both command names are supported after install: intelli (primary) and intellihelper (alias).

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Installing the released binary

Prebuilt binaries are published for macOS, Linux, and Windows. The installer shows download progress in interactive terminals and installs both intelli and intellihelper on your PATH.

curl -fsSL https://cli.intellihelper.in/install.sh | bash   # macOS / Linux / Git Bash
irm https://cli.intellihelper.in/install.ps1 | iex          # Windows PowerShell
intelli --version
# same binary:
intellihelper --version

See GitHub Releases for fixes and features in each version.

Updating

Managed installs (installer / npm / GitHub Releases) check for new versions automatically by default. You will see when an update is available in the TUI or terminal; the new binary can download in the background, or you can update explicitly:

intelli update              # or: intellihelper update
intelli update --check      # report only

Download progress is shown during interactive install and update. Configure behavior in ~/.intellihelper/config.toml:

[cli]
auto_update = true          # default when unset
# channel = "stable"        # or "alpha" / "enterprise"

Building from source

Requirements:

• Rust — the toolchain is pinned by rust-toolchain.toml; rustup installs it automatically on first build.

• DotSlash — required so hermetic tools under bin/ (notably bin/protoc) can download and run. Install it and ensure dotslash is on your PATH before building:

  cargo install dotslash
  # or: prebuilt packages — https://dotslash-cli.com/docs/installation/
  /usr/bin/env dotslash --help   # sanity check

• protoc — proto codegen resolves bin/protoc via DotSlash, or falls back to a protoc on PATH / $PROTOC.

• macOS and Linux are supported build hosts; Windows builds are best-effort and not currently tested from this tree.

cargo run -p intellihelper-pager-bin              # build + launch the TUI
cargo build -p intellihelper-pager-bin --release  # release binary: target/release/intellihelper-pager
cargo check -p intellihelper-pager-bin            # fast validation

The binary artifact is named intellihelper-pager; official installs ship it as intelli and intellihelper. Configure models via ~/.intellihelper/config.toml (BYOK) — see the authentication guide.

Documentation

Install endpoint: cli.intellihelper.in (CDN layout: docs/cli-cdn-layout.md).

The user guide ships with the pager crate: crates/codegen/intellihelper-pager/docs/user-guide/ — getting started, keyboard shortcuts, slash commands, configuration, theming, MCP servers, skills, plugins, hooks, headless mode, sandboxing, and more.

Repository layout

Path	Contents
crates/codegen/intellihelper-pager-bin	Composition-root package; builds the intellihelper-pager binary
crates/codegen/intellihelper-pager	The TUI: scrollback, prompt, modals, rendering
crates/codegen/intellihelper-shell	Agent runtime + leader/stdio/headless entry points
crates/codegen/intellihelper-tools	Tool implementations (terminal, file edit, search, ...)
crates/codegen/intellihelper-workspace	Host filesystem, VCS, execution, checkpoints
crates/codegen/...	The rest of the CLI crate closure (config, MCP, markdown, sandbox, ...)
crates/common/, crates/build/, prod/mc/	Small shared leaf crates pulled in by the closure
third_party/	Vendored upstream source (Mermaid diagram stack) — see below

Important

The root Cargo.toml (workspace members, dependency versions, lints, profiles) is generated — treat it as read-only. Prefer editing per-crate Cargo.toml files.

Development

cargo check -p <crate>        # always target specific crates; full-workspace builds are slow
cargo test -p intellihelper-config # per-crate tests
cargo clippy -p <crate>       # lint config: clippy.toml at the repo root
cargo fmt --all               # rustfmt.toml at the repo root

Contributing

Note

External contributions are not accepted. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

First-party code in this repository is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 — see LICENSE.

Third-party and vendored code remains under its original licenses. See:

• THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES — crates.io / git dependencies, bundled UI themes, and in-tree source ports (including openai/codex and sst/opencode tool implementations)
• crates/codegen/intellihelper-tools/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md — crate-local notice for the codex and opencode ports (license texts + Apache §4(b) change notice)
• third_party/NOTICE — vendored Mermaid-stack index