ccline: AI at the zsh prompt — built for people who use tools like bat

[jianshuo]

Hey bat community! 🦇

If you're using bat instead of cat, you care about your terminal experience. I built something in that same spirit of improving terminal UX.

It's ccline — natural language at the zsh prompt.

What it does

ccline hijacks zsh's command_not_found_handler. Type something that's not a real command — plain English, a question, an intention — and it asks Claude AI. Answer renders as Markdown with syntax highlighting. Press Enter to run suggested commands.

$ show the last 20 lines of a log file with highlighting
→ tail -n 20 app.log | bat --language log
→ [press Enter to run]

$ find all files changed in last 24 hours
→ find . -mtime -1 -type f
→ [press Enter to run]

Like bat enhances cat, ccline enhances what happens when you type something you're not sure about.

Install

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

Requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY. Works with bat, fzf, and any other terminal tools.

→ https://github.com/jianshuo/ccline