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AI · June 28, 2025

Clai - Vendor agnostic Claude Code/Gemini CLI written in Go

Clai allows you to pipe files into practically any AI model, local or remote, and then stores the output as conversations locally. Supports tooling calls for many convenient bash tools, also supports writing local files. You can also pre-prompt with the new profiles, which enables convenient swapping between custom tool + prompt configurations. Personally I use clai practically all the time. It auto-generate unittests in seconds, can analyze huge complex codebases, interpret confusing output + syntax, etc. It's a tool, like a hammer, so you need to know how to use it. But once you do it…

Clai - Vendor agnostic Claude Code/Gemini CLI written in Go launched on June 28, 2025 with 11 votes, #2,422 of 7,999 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

Clai is a command-line interface tool written in Go that lets developers access Claude and Gemini AI models without being locked into a single vendor. It works across different AI providers through a unified interface, making it useful for developers who want flexibility in choosing which AI model to use for their coding tasks. The tool is open-source and available on GitHub.

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From the sources

Command line artificial intelligence - Context engineering for terminal powerusers - baalimago/clai

In the maker’s words, at launch

Clai allows you to pipe files into practically any AI model, local or remote, and then stores the output as conversations locally. Supports tooling calls for many convenient bash tools, also supports writing local files. You can also pre-prompt with the new profiles, which enables convenient swapping between custom…

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