ccline: AI at the zsh prompt — terminal tool for people who record terminal GIFs

[jianshuo]

Hey VHS community! 🎬

If you use VHS to record terminal demos, you're a terminal native who cares about showing cool things in the CLI. I built something worth recording.

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. Press Enter to run.

$ create a VHS tape that shows a demo with typing animation
→ [Claude drafts a .tape file with Type/Sleep/Screenshot commands]

$ how do I change the font in a VHS recording
→ Set FontFamily "Hack Nerd Font"
→ [press Enter... wait, that goes in the tape file!]

Could also make for a pretty compelling VHS demo if you want to show it off!

Install

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

Requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY.

→ https://github.com/jianshuo/ccline