Show HN: Please – local CLI that translates English –> tar

2 points by xhjkl a day ago

I got tired of alt-tabbing between a terminal and a chat window, so I made `please`. It lets you type what you mean and prints the exact command, adapted to your cwd/args/stdin — without leaving the shell. It infers on-device, and has no telemetry.

It's not a fully-featured coding agent; if you want to do a large, cross-cutting refactoring, Codex/Crush are just better choices. However, `please` complements those tools when you need to quickly look up just the right syntax, or perhaps pipe your configs through an LLM.

Repo + README + demo are in the link. Feedback very welcome, especially on UX/edge cases.