ccline: AI at the raw zsh prompt — the anti-TUI approach to terminal AI

[jianshuo]

Hey Bubble Tea community! 🧋

As TUI developers, you know better than anyone what makes a great terminal UX. I built something that takes a very different approach — pure shell, no TUI.

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 inline in your terminal. Press Enter to run suggested commands.

No TUI, no separate app, no mode switching. Just the raw zsh prompt.

$ create a new bubbletea app with default structure
→ go mod init my-app && ...
→ [Claude gives the full setup sequence]

$ run all go tests with verbose output
→ go test ./... -v
→ [press Enter to run]

$ show go module dependency tree
→ go mod graph | head -20
→ [press Enter to run]

As TUI builders, I'm curious what you think about this "no UI" approach to shell AI — it's the opposite philosophy from what you build!

Install

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

Requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY.

→ https://github.com/jianshuo/ccline