ccline: a different take on AI in the terminal — for zsh power users

[jianshuo]

Hey WaveTerm community!

WaveTerm is doing something really interesting with AI natively in the terminal. I built something that approaches the same problem from a different angle.

It's ccline — AI at the raw zsh prompt level.

The difference

WaveTerm builds AI into the terminal emulator itself — which is powerful and polished. ccline takes the opposite approach: it hooks directly into zsh's command_not_found_handler at the shell level, with zero TUI, zero UI.

If you type something that isn't a real command, it just asks Claude and prints the answer as Markdown inline. Press Enter to run any suggested command.

$ what's the difference between exec and spawn in Node.js
→ [Claude explains with examples]

$ restart nginx and tail the error log
→ sudo systemctl restart nginx && sudo tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log
→ [press Enter to run]

Why it might interest you

If you like WaveTerm's AI integration but sometimes want something lighter (works in any terminal, any SSH session, any Docker container), ccline is that minimal footprint option.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jianshuo/ccline/main/install.sh | bash

Requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY.

→ https://github.com/jianshuo/ccline