# susiai/susi_shell

This suite of tools enables users to interact with AI services directly from their terminal.

Repository: https://github.com/susiai/susi_shell
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/susi_shell
Language: Python
License: LGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2025-05-04T06:32:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 41/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 19, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3203, "days_push": 486, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1002, forks 3 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:18.245624+00:00)

## What it is
A suite of Python-based command line tools for interacting with AI services directly from the terminal, including chat, text completion, transcription, translation, and text-to-speech commands. It currently relies on the OpenAI API, with plans to support local self-hosted services via the susi_api project.

## Use cases
- chat with an LLM from the terminal
- transcribe audio input to text
- translate text between languages from the command line
- convert text to speech
- generate AI completions for a piece of text
- pipe prompts to a model via stdin

## When to choose
- you want AI capabilities without leaving the terminal
- you need quick speech-to-text or text-to-speech from the command line
- you prefer lightweight shell tools over full chat apps

## When to avoid
- you need fully local/offline AI inference today
- you require a polished GUI chat experience
- you need guaranteed stability, as many commands are still being implemented

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: experimental
- function: cli, llm-inference, speech-recognition, tts, chatbot
- domain: large-language-models, artificial-intelligence, speech-processing
- platform: cli, python, cross-platform
- tags: terminal-ai, openai-api, shell-tools, transcription, text-completion, command-line, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- susiai/susi_shell (main) score 41

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:18.245624+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:14:02.426103+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/susiai/susi_shell (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:18.245624+00:00, sha 91e2c3c5e663)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.