Global Just Recipes for Quick AI in the Terminal

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Global Just Recipes for Quick AI in the Terminal

The snippet above is from my global ~/.justfile. I also have abbr -a j 'just' in my Fish configuration.

The original version streamed the output. This version sacrifices that streaming for pretty output formatting with charmbracelet/glow. It pipes the output Markdown through prettier/prettier to make up for any wonky formatting; Claude in particular likes to skip blank lines after headings.

This means that charmbracelet/glow and prettier/prettier are dependencies, alongside any AI backends like github/copilot-cli or anthropics/claude-code.

The Gemini and Codex CLI backends are not yet implemented.

Recipes are provided for Claude Haiku (default for the ai alias) and GPT-5 Mini via Copilot (consumes 0 premium requests).

flowchart LR
 subgraph s1["Claude Code"]
        ask-claude["ask-claude"]
        ask-claude-haiku["ask-claude-haiku"]
        n1["ask-claude-sonnet"]
        n2["ask-claude-opus"]
  end
 subgraph s2["Copilot CLI"]
        ask-copilot["ask-copilot"]
        ask-copilot-gpt-5-mini["ask-copilot-gpt-5-mini"]
  end
 subgraph s3["Gemini CLI"]
        ask-gemini["ask-gemini"]
        n3["ask-gemini-pro"]
        n4["ask-gemini-flash"]
  end
 subgraph s4["Codex CLI"]
        ask-codex["ask-codex"]
        n5["ask-codex-standard"]
        n6["ask-codex-max"]
  end
    just["just"] --> ask["ask"]
    ask --> ask-claude & ask-copilot & ask-gemini & ask-codex
    ask-claude --> ask-claude-haiku & n1 & n2
    ask-copilot --> ask-copilot-gpt-5-mini
    ask-gemini --> n3 & n4
    ask-codex --> n5 & n6

    style n1 color:#616161,stroke-width:1px,stroke-dasharray: 1
    style n2 color:#616161,stroke-width:1px,stroke-dasharray: 1
    style ask-gemini stroke-width:1px,stroke-dasharray: 1,color:#616161
    style n3 stroke-width:1px,stroke-dasharray: 1,color:#616161
    style n4 stroke-width:1px,stroke-dasharray: 1,color:#616161
    style ask-codex stroke-width:1px,stroke-dasharray: 1,color:#616161
    style n5 stroke-width:1px,stroke-dasharray: 1,color:#616161
    style n6 stroke-width:1px,stroke-dasharray: 1,color:#616161

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For example:

$ j ai show me how to extract the audio from myvideo.avi into myaduio.mp3 using ffmpeg

I alias ai to ask-claude-haiku - it's a great default for most simple tasks - fast and smart enough. You can easily change this to ask-copilot-gpt-5-mini if you want a free solution.

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Happy Commandlining!

🫶 Eleanor (@intellectronica) and Dave (@daveio)

.justfile

set shell := ["fish", "-c"]

ask backend model +prompt:
	@cd {{invocation_directory()}}; just ask-{{backend}} {{model}} "{{prompt}}" | prettier --parser=markdown | glow

ask-copilot model +prompt:
	@cd {{invocation_directory()}}; copilot --model {{model}} --silent --allow-all-paths --allow-all-tools --stream on -p "{{prompt}}\\n\\nOutput Markdown." 2>/dev/null

ask-claude model +prompt:
	@cd {{invocation_directory()}}; claude --model {{model}} --permission-mode bypassPermissions --dangerously-skip-permissions -p "{{prompt}}\\n\\nOutput Markdown." 2>/dev/null

ask-gemini model +prompt:
	@cd {{invocation_directory()}}; echo NOT YET IMPLEMENTED

ask-codex model +prompt:
	@cd {{invocation_directory()}}; echo NOT YET IMPLEMENTED

ask-copilot-gpt-5-mini +prompt:
	@cd {{invocation_directory()}} && just ask copilot gpt-5-mini "{{prompt}}"

ask-claude-haiku +prompt:
	@cd {{invocation_directory()}} && just ask claude haiku "{{prompt}}"

alias ai := ask-claude-haiku