ccline: AI at the zsh prompt — the perfect companion to a well-managed dotfiles setup

[jianshuo]

Hey chezmoi community! 🏠

If you use chezmoi to manage your dotfiles, you've clearly invested in a thoughtful, portable development environment. I built something that adds AI to the shell layer of that environment.

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.

$ apply chezmoi changes without prompting
→ chezmoi apply --force
→ [press Enter to run]

$ check what would change before applying
→ chezmoi diff
→ [press Enter to run]

$ add new dotfile to chezmoi management
→ chezmoi add ~/.config/nvim/init.lua
→ [press Enter to run]

People who use chezmoi already know that a good terminal setup is worth maintaining. ccline adds AI assistance to that same terminal.

Install

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

Requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY. Easy to add to your chezmoi-managed dotfiles!

→ https://github.com/jianshuo/ccline

[halostatue]

This is not something built with chezmoi or specifically for chezmoi, but instead is an ad for a different project entirely.