Matthew Tyson
AI Shell will take your desired goal (e.g., “$ ai find the process using the most memory right now and kill it”) and offer working shell commands in response. It will then ask if you want to run it, edit it, copy, or cancel the command. This makes AI Shell a simple place to drop into, as needed, from the normal command prompt. You just type “ai” followed by whatever you are trying to do.
Although it’s a handy tool, the current version of AI Shell can only use an OpenAI API, which is a significant drawback. There is no way to run AI Shell in a free tier, since OpenAI no longer offers free API access.
Warp
Warp started life as a full-featured terminal app. Its killer feature is that it gives you all the text and control niceties in a cross-platform, portable setup. Unlike the Gemini and Copilot CLI tools, which are agents that run inside an existing shell, Warp is a full-fledged, standalone GUI application with AI integrated at its core.
