aichat
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“As someone who lives in the terminal the web interface doesn't feel as nice to use as things like aichat, crush, or antigravity-cli.”
“I personally prefer aichat, as it allows me the option to copy the command its proposing to the clipboard”
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“which I give the alias `ai` on my machines”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I have a few variations of pruning (trimming all long tool outputs, agent-directed trimming, etc) in my aichat collection of session tools”
“a super-fast Rust/Tantivy-based full-text search across Claude Code + Codex-CLI session JSONL logs”
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell 2 mentions
- DeepSeek Harness official website launched 1 mention
- How Compaction Works in Pi 1 mention
- qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work 1 mention
- Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency 1 mention
- How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code 1 mention
Data: aichat.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“As someone who lives in the terminal the web interface doesn't feel as nice to use as things like aichat, crush, or antigravity-cli.”
“I started with aichat[0] before the current agent trend”
“Using bare aichat [1] with no system prompt”
“I personally prefer aichat, as it allows me the option to copy the command its proposing to the clipboard”
“which I give the alias `ai` on my machines”