manai

manai is an AI powered interactive command line completion for Zsh. Hotkey to trigger and ask anything about your work-in-progress command line.

Prerequisites

• Zsh
• fzf
• OpenAI API Key

Installation

1. Clone this package to somewhere you are comfortable with (e.g. $HOME/.dotfiles/manai)

   $ git clone git@github.com:mecab/manai.git $HOME/.dotfiles/manai

2. Download manai binary (why?/you don't trust the binary? see Build Manai Binary by Yourself)

   $ $HOME/.dotfiles/manai/download-manai.zsh

3. Source manai.zsh in your zshrc, set your OPENAI_API_KEY then bind manai function to any keybind

   $ nano ~/.zshrc

   and add the following

   export OPENAI_API_KEY="your-openai-api-key"
   source $HOME/.dotfiles/manai/manai.zsh
   
   # bind to `Alt-h`. Update this to your preference!
   bindkey '\eh' manai
   

   Note: You can also specify MANAI_OPENAI_API_KEY instead of OPENAI_AI_KEY for manai exclusive use.

4. then reload your zshrc

   $ exec $SHELL -l

Build Manai Binary by Yourself

Manai uses a binary executable to process the output from ChatGPT because it is difficult to handle the streamed output using only shell scripts. For convenience, pre-built binaries are distributed, but you can also build it yourself. It is written in TypeScript and can be compiled if you have Bun installed.

1. Install JS Dependencies

   $ cd $HOME/.dotfiles/manai
   $ bun install

2. Build the binary

   $ bun run build

   It should generate bin/manai binary for your architecture.

Why "Manai"?

• man + AI
• (悩)まない (naya)manai - "worry-free" in Japanese