Show HN: Shelly, terminal assistant that translates natural language into shell

7 nestorD 2 6/13/2025, 10:43:22 PM github.com ↗

Describe what you want in plain English, and Shelly will figure out the right commands, explain what they do, and run them for you, with guardrails to ensure that you only run commands you feel safe running.

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iamdamian · 3h ago

Tucked at the bottom of the README:

> Privacy note: Shelly sends your requests, including your recent shell history, to Anthropic's API.

nestorD · 3h ago

Yes, it is API based and uses your last unique 100 shell commands as part of its prompt: it seemed important to remind users that this data does leave their machine. A fork using a local model should be fairly easy to set up.

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