v0.2.15

ask.
The AI that lives in your terminal.

Stop breaking your flow. Get instant, accurate coding answers directly in your CLI without ever switching to a browser.

Install

Homebrew (macOS)

$brew tap nimahejazi/tap

$brew install nh-ask-cli

From source:pip install -e .

bash - ask

$ask "how do I list files by size?"

To list files by size in the current directory, use the ls command with these flags

ls -lhS

- l — long format (shows permissions, owner, size)

- h — human-readable sizes (1K, 234M, 2G)

- S — sort by file size, largest first

Engineered for Focus

No context switching

Stay in your editor, stay in your terminal. Ask questions and get code snippets without breaking your mental stack or waiting for a bloated web app to load.

Privacy by choice

Run fully local via Ollama or LM Studio, or use your own provider keys — we never see your queries.

Always free

Core query functionality is open source and free forever for individual developers.

Ready to optimize your workflow?

Takes less than 10 seconds to install.

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