Terminal and CLI

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Alphabetical. Checked on 2026-09-04; anything that did not answer says so.

• agx
  Runs coding agents as long-lived workers with objectives and memory, so a session survives being interrupted.
  Agents that resume instead of restarting.
• AICommits
  A small CLI that writes the commit message from the staged diff.
  One job, done at the moment you were going to type anyway.
• Amazon Q Developer CLI
  Amazon Q in the terminal: completion for hundreds of CLIs, natural language chat and command generation.
  Autocomplete for the commands nobody remembers.
• bat
  A replacement for cat with syntax highlighting, line numbers and git markers, paged by default.
  cat, if it had been written after colour existed.
• Butterfish
  Puts a model inside the shell itself, so the prompt and the terminal are the same prompt.
  The assistant lives in the shell, not beside it.
• ccr
  A searchable shell history that is project-aware, synced and encrypted, replacing reverse search.
  Because the command you want was three projects ago.
• codachi
  A virtual pet that lives in the Claude Code status line and reacts to what you are doing.
  Does nothing useful, on purpose.
• exa the connection timed out
  A modern ls with colours, icons and git awareness. The site timed out; the project is now maintained as eza.
  Superseded by a fork that kept going.
• Fig the server returned an error
  Brought IDE-style autocomplete to the terminal. Acquired by Amazon and folded into Amazon Q. The site returns a server error.
  Absorbed: the work continues under another name.
• fzf
  A general-purpose fuzzy finder that composes with any command producing lines. One of the most-copied ideas in terminal tooling.
  A filter so good it became a keybinding everywhere.
• GitHub Copilot CLI
  Copilot inside GitHub's command line tool, for the parts of the workflow that never leave the terminal.
  The assistant, where gh already was.
• intelli-shell
  Command completion and a searchable library of commands in the shell, working like editor IntelliSense.
  Autocomplete for the shell, from outside a vendor.
• Mentat the domain does not resolve
  A command-line coding assistant that edited across files. The domain no longer resolves.
  Gone: the domain does not resolve.
• ShellGPT
  A command-line tool that turns a description into a shell command, and can run it.
  For the flag you look up every single time.
• tldr
  Community-maintained simplified man pages, showing the five examples you actually wanted.
  The man page, minus the parts nobody reads.
• TmuxAI
  An assistant that watches the tmux pane and offers help from what is on screen, without taking control.
  Reads the terminal instead of replacing it.
• Warp
  Began as a rewritten terminal with structured blocks and history. Now sells itself as infrastructure for running agents across the development lifecycle.
  It stopped being a terminal while nobody was looking.
• zx
  Google's tool for writing shell scripts in JavaScript, with the awkward parts of bash quoting handled.
  Shell scripting for people who gave up on bash.

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