Chat

Chat with your computer.

chat [...OPTIONS] [input]

Provides a CLI interface to have a conversational chat with your computer.

Supports persisting a conversation to disk and resuming it later.

chat understands each input to be a prompt, a command, a redirection, a file
path, directory, or a glob. Please refer to the examples.

Positionals:
  input  Optional initial input                                         [string]

Control Flow:
  -i, --interactive                                                    [boolean]
  -c, --continue     Resume conversation from recovery file (default: true).
                                                                       [boolean]

File System:
  -r, --read           Resume conversation from file.                   [string]
  -w, --write          Stream conversation to file, overwriting contents.
                                                                        [string]
  -a, --append         Stream conversation to file, appending contents. [string]
      --recovery-path  Output conversation recovery path.              [boolean]
      --clean-all      Clean up all recovery files.                    [boolean]
      --clean          Clean up recovery file for current shell.       [boolean]
  -p, --prune          Prune 400 tokens (approximately one page) of the
                       conversation or specify a number of tokens to prune
                       (default: 400).                                  [number]

Options:
      --tokens   Maximum number of tokens to sample. 400 tokens is approximately
                 one page of text. You can also configure tokens by setting the
                 environment variable CHAT_MAX_TOKENS. (default: 200000, max:
                 200000)                                                [number]
      --version  Show version number                                   [boolean]
      --help     Show help                                             [boolean]

Examples:
  chat -i Hi                       Strike up a friendly conversation.
  chat "Explain the singularity"   Prompt once.
  chat --interactive               Start in interactive mode.
  chat -i src/commands/default.ts  Load contents of file into chat.
  chat -i ./src                    Load contents of files in src.
  chat -i "./src/**/*"             Load contents of files matching glob.
  chat --read convo.md Summarize   Summarize existing conversation.
  chat -i -r convo.md -a convo.md  Resume persisted conversation.
  chat -i -ra convo.md             Shorthand for resume conversation.

  --interactive mode
  :ls .                            Execute ls and print output.
  ::ls .                           Execute ls and summarize output.
  > time.md                        Write conversation to file in -i mode.
  >> time.md                       Append conversation to file in -i mode.
  ./src                            Load contents of files in src.
  ./src/**/*                       Load contents of files matching glob.
  Why is the sky blue?             Prompt without quotes.

Installation

npm i -g @prmichaelsen/chat

Initial Setup

chat is built on AWS Bedrock Claude Anthropic v2 and it requires CLI authentication with an AWS profile authorized to call Bedrock in order to work. See the AWS docs on CLI authentication.

aws sso login --profile my-profile