Butterfish Shell

What it does

Butterfish is for people who work from the command line, it adds AI prompting to your shell (bash, zsh) with OpenAI. Think Github Copilot for shell.

Butterfish is for people who work from the command line, it adds AI prompting to your shell (bash, zsh) with OpenAI (or compatible APIs). Think Github Copilot for shell. Here’s how it works: use your shell as normal, start a command with a capital letter to prompt the AI. The AI sees the shell history, so you can ask contextual questions like “Why did that command fail?”. This is a magical UX pattern – you get high-context AI help exactly when you want it, NO COPY/PASTING. Feedback and external contribution is very welcome! Butterfish is open source under the MIT license. We hope that you find it useful! Butterfish works on MacOS and Linux. You can install via…from butterfi.sh

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