ccline: AI at the zsh prompt — for gh CLI users who want shell questions answered inline

[jianshuo]

Hey gh CLI community! 🐙

If you use the GitHub CLI (gh), you're someone who prefers doing things in the terminal. I built something that extends that to any shell question.

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 pr from current branch with auto-generated title
→ gh pr create --fill
→ [press Enter to run]

$ check status of all my open prs across all repos
→ gh search prs --author @me --state open
→ [press Enter to run]

$ clone a repo and immediately open it in vs code
→ gh repo clone owner/repo && code repo/
→ [press Enter to run]

$ watch a github workflow run in real time
→ gh run watch
→ [press Enter to run]

For gh CLI users who sometimes forget the exact flags — ccline fills the gap.

Install

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

→ https://github.com/jianshuo/ccline