ccline: AI answers rendered as Markdown in your zsh prompt — you'll feel right at home

[jianshuo]

Hey glow community! 🌟

If you use glow, you already appreciate Markdown rendered beautifully in the terminal. I built something that brings that same experience to AI answers at the zsh prompt.

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. The answer renders as Markdown right in your terminal (with code blocks, bold, headers). Press Enter to run any suggested command.

$ explain the difference between hard and soft links
→ [Claude answers with formatted Markdown — headers, code examples, bold]
→ (looks great in your terminal)

$ create a symlink from src to dst
→ ln -s /path/to/src /path/to/dst
→ [press Enter to run]

Since you're already a fan of Markdown in the terminal, you'll feel right at home with ccline's output.

Install

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

Requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY.

→ https://github.com/jianshuo/ccline