ChatCLI

ChatCLI is a command-line tool that uses the OpenAI GPT-3.5/GPT-4 API to provide a chat bot interface that can answer your questions. It provides a simple and intuitive way to interact with GPT-3 by asking questions and getting relevant answers.

This command is in early development and the interface and log file format are unstable and changing rapidly. I'd love to get feedback on what would make this tool more useful.

WARNING: This version supports EVALUATE blocks that allow GPT to evaluate code. This should only work if the pyeval plugin is enabled, either using "--plugin pyeval" or "--personality pyeval". There is no sandboxing, so GPT can run any code it likes if you enable this!

Installation

The following steps will guide you through the installation process:

1. Install with pip:

pip install chatcli-gpt

Running chatcli

2. Initialise the log:

By default it would save logs in ".chatcli.log", could override by setting environment variable CHATCLI_LOGFILE.

chatcli init

3. Set your OpenAI API key in the environment variable OPENAI_API_KEY.

4. Run chatcli

chatcli

5. See all the commands available:

chatcli --help

Usage

Ask a question

To ask a question, just run chatcli:

chatcli

This will start a conversation with the chat bot, which will prompt you for a question. You can also include a text file as context for your question by using the -f or --file option:

chatcli --file myfile.txt

You can also specify the personality that the chat bot should use with the -p or --personality option:

chatcli --personality concise

Continue a conversation

To continue a previous conversation, use the chat command with the --continue option:

chatcli --continue

Show a conversation

To show a previous conversation, use the show:

chatcli show

List all conversations

To list all the conversations that have been logged, use the log command:

chatcli log

Tag a conversation

You can tag a conversation using the tag command:

chatcli tag mytag

List all tags

To list all the tags that have been used, use the tags command:

chatcli tags

Filter by tag

You can filter conversations by tag using the -t or --tag option:

chatcli log --tag mytag

Remove a tag

You can remove a tag from a conversation using the untag command:

chatcli untag mytag

Display usage

To display the number of tokens used and the token cost, use the usage command:

chatcli usage

Examples

Generate a README for this project

chatcli --quick --file chatcli.py --personality code
>> Generate a README.md for this project.

Using ChatGPT to create commit messages

1. Make some changes to your code and stage them for commit:

git add -p

2. Use git diff to see the changes you've made and pipe them to ChatGPT's chatcli.py script to generate a commit message:

git diff --cached | chatcli -p commit

3. Make a commit with the generated message:

git commit -m "$(chatcli show)"

This will use the show command to display the last message generated by the chat bot, which is then used as the commit message.

That's it! You've successfully used ChatGPT to generate a commit message based on the changes you've made to your code.

Contributing

If you wish to contribute to this project, please fork the repository and submit a pull request.