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AI · November 6, 2025

qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell

I built qqqa as an open-source project, because I was tired of bouncing between shell, ChatGPT / the browser for rather simple commands. It comes with two binaries: qq and qa. qq means "quick question" - it is read-only, perfect for the commands I always forget. qa means "quick agent" - it is qq's sibling that can run things, but only after showing its plan and getting an approval by the user. It is built entirely around the Unix philosophy of focused tools, stateless by default - pretty much the opposite of what most coding agent are focusing on. Personally I've had the best experience…

qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell launched on November 6, 2025 with 165 votes, #173 of 9,796 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

qqqa is an open-source shell assistant with two tools: qq for read-only questions about commands, and qa for running commands after showing the user its plan for approval. It uses LLM APIs like Groq or OpenAI-compatible services to answer queries directly from the terminal. Designed around Unix philosophy, it operates statelessly and aims to eliminate switching between shell and browser for quick command lookups or simple tasks.

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From the sources

Fast, stateless LLM for your shell: qq answers; qa runs commands - iagooar/qqqa

In the maker’s words, at launch

I built qqqa as an open-source project, because I was tired of bouncing between shell, ChatGPT / the browser for rather simple commands. It comes with two binaries: qq and qa. qq means "quick question" - it is read-only, perfect for the commands I always forget. qa means "quick agent" - it is qq's sibling that…

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