ccline: AI at the zsh prompt — for people who live in the terminal

[jianshuo]

Hey Textual community!

If you're building TUI apps with Textual, you're clearly a terminal-native developer. I built something that complements your workflow.

It's ccline — natural language at the zsh prompt.

What it does

ccline hijacks zsh's command_not_found_handler. Type something that isn't a real command — plain English, a question — and it asks Claude AI. Answer renders as Markdown with syntax highlighting. Press Enter to run.

$ create a virtual environment and install requirements
→ python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && pip install -r requirements.txt
→ [press Enter to run]

$ run all tests and show only failures
→ pytest -v --tb=short -q 2>&1 | grep -E 'FAILED|ERROR|passed|failed'
→ [press Enter to run]

$ find what's taking up space in current directory
→ du -sh * | sort -rh | head -20
→ [press Enter to run]

The AI context that Textual brings to terminal apps — ccline brings the same to the shell itself.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jianshuo/ccline/main/install.sh | bash

Requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY.

→ https://github.com/jianshuo/ccline