Show HN: Clai – Context engineering for terminal powerusers

Category: cli-tool

Tags: cli-tool, ai, llm, context-engineering, mcp

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 6, Documentation: 6, Utility: 6)

Clai is a command-line tool that feeds context to AI models, enabling users to pipe terminal data to LLMs for tasks like querying, summarizing, or generating responses. It supports multiple vendors, MCP servers, conversations, and profiles, making it a flexible context-engineering tool for power users. Its unix-philosophy design and vendor agnosticism fill a practical gap in CLI-AI integration.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, power users

Repository: https://github.com/baalimago/clai · Go · MIT · 144 stars

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