TAITerminal AI Helper

A shell plugin for bash and zsh that learns the commands you actually run and suggests them as you type — no server, no daemon, no Python on your keystrokes. Everything runs on your machine, offline, stdlib only.

Install in one command

The keys

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Ghost hints as you type

Type a few letters and the rest of the command you usually run appears in grey. One key takes it whole, another takes one word.

Your habits, ranked

Press Tab and your own history answers — the lines you actually run, ranked by how often, how recently, in this directory, after what.

Typos answered by the habit they shadow

A word that matches nothing brings up the learned lines it is a typo of — the one-off ranks below the habit, in the index itself.

The filesystem answers paths

A line ending in a file is answered by what is actually there, newest first. A cd is answered by the directories that exist here.

It learns the tools it has never seen

The first time you run an unknown tool, TAI reads its real --help in the background, so its subcommands and flags are known from then on.

A dashboard with the why

tai web opens a localhost page of everything it learned — and every suggestion carries a why that opens the arithmetic behind its score.

tai in action — the hint, the ranked list, the filesystem, a typo answered by the habit it shadows

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlibre/Terminal-AI-Helper/main/install.sh | bash

npm is a door to the same install: npm i -g terminal-ai-helper@latest --allow-scripts=terminal-ai-helper unpacks the same files and runs the same installer itself, and tai update knows an npm install and updates it from the registry — and retargets a plugin line an older install left behind.

Start with the keys, or read how it is built. Your history never leaves the machine — secrets and stray keys are filtered out before anything is stored — and tai uninstall removes the integration, the data, the wrapper and the ~/.tai checkout in one command.