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Re: TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant

#51

Post by rawoke083600 » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 9:21 AM UTC

I do love this, but haven't managed to actually try it out. ( I stopped trying and moved on)

But well done for launching (the following is not hate, but onboarding feedback)

Who else had issues about API key ?

1. What is a TMUXAI_OPENROUTER_API_KEY ?? (is like an OPENAI key) ?

2. If its an API key for TMUXAI ? Where do I find this ? Can't see on the website ? (probably haven't searched properly, but why make me search ?)

3. SUPER simple instructions to install, but ZERO (discoverable) instructions where/how to find and set API key ??

4. When running tmuxai instead of telling me I need an API key. How about putting an actual link to where I can find the API key.

Again well done for launching... sure it took hard word and effort.

Re: TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant

#52

Post by alvinunreal » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 9:33 AM UTC

rawoke083600 wrote: post #51

I do love this, but haven't managed to actually try it out. ( I stopped trying and moved on) But well done for launching (the following is not hate, but onboarding feedback) Who else had issues about API key ? 1. What is a TMUXAI_OPENROUTER_API_KEY ?? (is like an OPENAI key) ? 2. If its an API key for TMUXAI ? Where do I find this ? Can't see on the website ? (probably haven't searched properly, but why make me searc…

Thanks for feedback, agree those stuff could be clearer. Will handle.

Just to answer your questions, it's an OpenAI API compatible service, which you can generate here: https://openrouter.ai/settings/keys

Also added recently in readme how you can use OpenAI, Claude or others.

Re: TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant

#53

Post by alvinunreal » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 9:37 AM UTC

trees101 wrote: post #50

trees101 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

edit your `.config/tmuxai/config.yaml` to add these lines: ``` openrouter: api_key: "dummy_key" model: gemma3:4b base_url: http://localhost:11434/v1 ```

I tried it and it didn't work too well. I suspect the prompts were optimized for Gemini, not local Gemma. TBH I found the whole thing quite flaky even when using Gemini. I don't think I'll keep using it, although the concept was promising.

It's still early release, I know it should still be improved but my hope is community could help.

Re: TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant

#54

Post by jeltz » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 9:57 AM UTC

malux85 wrote: post #4

> TmuxAI » I'll help you find large files taking up space in this directory. Get rid of this bit, so the user asks question, gets command. Make it so the user can ask a follow up question if they want, but this is just noise, taking up valuable terminal space

Seems like something for everyone who loved Clippy.

Re: TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant

#55

Post by poulpy123 » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 10:44 AM UTC

Just curious: why specifically tmux and not any terminal ?

Re: TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant

#56

Post by neuroelectron » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:41 AM UTC

I feel like heuristics would be a much better way to do this. Just an "newb assassitmant" with a long list of useful commands but I guess this frees up expert's time from doing something so boring.

Re: TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant

#57

Post by amelius » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:41 AM UTC

Instead of showing:

    Do you want to execute this command? [Y]es/No/Edit

perhaps also add an "Explain" option, because for some commands it is not immediately obvious what they do (or are supposed to do).

Re: TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant

#58

Post by amelius » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:44 AM UTC

sepositus wrote: post #38

So I have yet to use any tool that needs an API key because I am concerned about costs. Does anyone have any idea what the daily usage of something like this would cost?

Same here. Plus I want to run this locally because I'm concerned about my data (and hey, I'm a hacker and don't want to be dependent on machines out of my control, and besides I like reproducibility).

Re: TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant

#59

Post by rpigab » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 12:57 PM UTC

I would usually alt-tab to browser, open up any good LLM in 1 keystroke, write a short prompt, optionally paste the output of "ls" or "find" if context matters, then just copy and paste the result. This tool adds context but I'm fine without it.

Re: TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant

#60

Post by jarbus » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 1:28 PM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #19

jarbus wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just wanted to say I love this, didn't known I needed this until now.

There's this new thing I'm currently working on. I have a tool that does a clean execvp of what you pass it through, as a total wrapper. You can do ./tool "bash" and then open up nvim, emacs, do whatever, while the tool sits there passing things back and forth cleanly. Full modern terminal support. Now here's the thing. You get context. Lots of it. Here's what it can do: psql# I need to join the users and accounts ta…

Would need to re-read this a few more times to fully understand it, but very interested in the direction. Still struggling to wrap my mind around how it would work from nvim automatically, though. Excited to see what you've got