I Built a Terminal AI Companion in 300 Lines of Pure Bash — And It's MIT Licensed

Pragmatic Sysadmin — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I write a lot of bash scripts. Most of them work. Some of them don’t — and when they don’t, I spend 20 minutes staring at an error message that, in retrospect, was actually pretty obvious.

I figured: what if I could just ask an AI, from my terminal, what went wrong?

That’s bashbuddy. 300 lines of pure bash. No npm. No Python. No dependencies beyond curl and jq. MIT licensed, free forever.

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I Built a Terminal AI Companion in 300 Lines of Pure Bash — And It's MIT Licensed