tgpt is a cross-platform command-line interface (CLI) tool that allows you to use AI chatbot in your Terminal without requiring API keys.
- Blackbox AI (Blackbox model)
- Duckduckgo (Supports several models)
- Groq (Requires a free API Key. LLaMA2-70b & Mixtral-8x7b)
- KoboldAI (koboldcpp/HF_SPACE_Tiefighter-13B)
- Ollama (Supports many models)
- OpenAI (All models, Requires API Key, supports custom endpoints)
- Phind (Phind Model)
Image Generation Model: BlackBoxAi
Usage: tgpt [Flags] [Prompt]
Flags:
-s, --shell Generate and Execute shell commands. (Experimental)
-c, --code Generate Code. (Experimental)
-q, --quiet Gives response back without loading animation
-w, --whole Gives response back as a whole text
-img, --image Generate images from text
--provider Set Provider. Detailed information has been provided below. (Env: AI_PROVIDER)
Some additional options can be set. However not all options are supported by all providers. Not supported options will just be ignored.
--model Set Model
--key Set API Key
--url Set OpenAI API endpoint url
--temperature Set temperature
--top_p Set top_p
--max_length Set max response length
--log Set filepath to log conversation to (For interactive modes)
--preprompt Set preprompt
-y Execute shell command without confirmation
Options:
-v, --version Print version
-h, --help Print help message
-i, --interactive Start normal interactive mode
-m, --multiline Start multi-line interactive mode
-cl, --changelog See changelog of versions
-u, --update Update program
--disable-input-limit Disables the checking of 4000 character input limit
Providers:
The default provider is phind. The AI_PROVIDER environment variable can be used to specify a different provider.
Available providers to use: blackboxai, duckduckgo, groq, koboldai, ollama, openai and phind
Provider: blackboxai
Uses BlackBox model. Great for developers
Provider: duckduckgo
Available models: gpt-4o-mini (default), meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct-Turbo, mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1, claude-3-haiku-20240307
Provider: groq
Requires a free API Key. Supports LLaMA2-70b & Mixtral-8x7b
Provider: koboldai
Uses koboldcpp/HF_SPACE_Tiefighter-13B only, answers from novels
Provider: ollama
Needs to be run locally. Supports many models
Provider: openai
Needs API key to work and supports various models. Recognizes the OPENAI_API_KEY and OPENAI_MODEL environment variables. Supports custom urls with --url
Provider: phind
Uses Phind Model. Great for developers
Examples:
tgpt "What is internet?"
tgpt -m
tgpt -s "How to update my system?"
tgpt --provider duckduckgo "What is 1+1"
tgpt --provider openai --key "sk-xxxx" --model "gpt-3.5-turbo" "What is 1+1"
cat install.sh | tgpt "Explain the code"
The default download location is /usr/local/bin
, but you can change it in the command to use a different location. However, make sure the location is added to your PATH environment variable for easy accessibility.
You can download it with the following command:
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aandrew-me/tgpt/main/install | bash -s /usr/local/bin
If you are using Arch Linux, you can install with pacman:
pacman -S tgpt
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/www/tgpt/ && make install clean
To install the package, run one of these commands:
pkg install www/tgpt
pkg install tgpt
You need to add the Go install directory to your system's shell path.
go install github.com/aandrew-me/tgpt/v2@latest
-
Scoop: Package installation with Scoop can be done using the following command:
scoop install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aandrew-me/tgpt/main/tgpt.json
-
Chocolatey
choco install tgpt
If you installed the program with the installation script, you may update it with
tgpt -u
It may require admin privileges.
Support:
- environment variable
http_proxy or HTTP_PROXY with following available formats:
- Http Proxy [
http://ip:port
] - Http Auth [
http://user:pass@ip:port
] - Socks5 Proxy [
socks5://ip:port ]
- Socks5 Auth [
socks5://user:pass@ip:port
]
- configuration file
file location in the following order:
- ./proxy.txt (in the same directory from where you are executing)
- ~/.config/tgpt/proxy.txt
Example:
http://127.0.0.1:8080
You can download the executable for your operating system, rename it to tgpt
(or any other desired name), and then execute it by typing ./tgpt
while in that directory. Alternatively, you can add it to your PATH environmental variable and then execute it by simply typing tgpt
.
If you installed with the install script, you can execute the following command to remove the tgpt executable
sudo rm $(which tgpt)
Configuration file is usually located in ~/.config/tgpt
on GNU/Linux Systems and in "Library/Application Support/tgpt"
on MacOS