lmcli/README.md

# lmcli

`lmcli` is a (Large) Language Model CLI.

Current features:
- Perform one-shot prompts with `lmcli prompt <message>`
- Manage persistent conversations with the `new`, `reply`, `view`, and `rm`
  sub-commands.
- Syntax highlighted output
- Tool calling, see the [Tools](#tools) section.

Planned features:
- Ask questions about content received on stdin
- Conversation editing

Maybe features:
- Support for additional models/APIs besides just OpenAI
- Natural language image generation, iterative editing

## Tools
Tools must be explicitly enabled by adding the tool's name to the
`openai.enabledTools` array in `config.yaml`.

Note: all filesystem related tools operate relative to the current directory
only. They do not accept absolute paths, and all efforts are made to ensure
they cannot escape above the working directory (not quite using chroot, but in
effect). **Close attention must be paid to where you are running `lmcli`, as
the model could at any time decide to use one of these tools to discover and
read potentially sensitive information from your filesystem.**

It's best to only have tools enabled in `config.yaml` when you intend to be
using them, since their descriptions (see `pkg/cli/functions.go`) count towards
context usage.

Available tools:

- `read_dir` - Read the contents of a directory.
- `read_file` - Read the contents of a file.
- `write_file` - Write contents to a file.
- `file_insert_lines` - Insert lines at a position within a file. Tricky for
  the model to use, but can potentially save tokens.
- `file_replace_lines` - Remove or replace a range of lines within a file. Even
  trickier for the model to use.

## Install

```shell
$ go install git.mlow.ca/mlow/lmcli@latest
```

## Usage

Invoke `lmcli` at least once:

```shell
$ lmcli help
```

Edit `~/.config/lmcli/config.yaml` and set `openai.apiKey` to your API key.

Refer back to the output of `lmcli help` for usage.

Enjoy!