A Tiny Terminal Chat App for AI Models with MCP Client Support
Built a terminal-based chat application that interact with AI models while keeping full control of chat data. Simple but effective MCP client implementation.
A Tiny Terminal Chat App for AI Models with MCP Client Support launched on February 11, 2025 with 10 votes, #2,019 of 5,999 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
This is a terminal-based chat application that lets users interact with AI models while maintaining control of their conversation data. It features a straightforward Model Context Protocol (MCP) client implementation, designed for simplicity and effectiveness. The tool is aimed at developers and users who prefer command-line interfaces and want to keep their chat history local rather than stored on external servers.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
A deceptively simple agent app. Contribute to luohy15/y-agent development by creating an account on GitHub.
Renamed from y-cli . y-cli wrapped model APIs; y-agent wraps coding agents. Web chat renders inline artifacts from assistant messages: Mermaid diagrams, Vega-Lite charts, and sanitized artifact-svg blocks. Coding agents like Claude Code / Codex are great for code, but code is only part of my daily life. I also have ledgers, calendars, todos, notes, emails. I want the agent to handle those too. Same data for me and for the agent. Files go through read / write / edit . Anything I'd reach for a GUI to do, the agent reaches for a CLI — it's already happy in Bash. Rule: whatever I can do in the GUI, the agent can do via CLI. The underlying file or DB row is the same. I don't want to carry a…from github.com
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