Janito – A Claude-powered CLI assistant for developers

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29 points·joaompinto··5 comments

Show HN: Janito is a CLI tool I built that brings Anthropic's Claude AI to your terminal for coding tasks and file management. It's designed to help developers stay in their workflow without context-switching to browsers or other tools.

Key features: - Intelligent file management with real-time output - Code search and editing capabilities - Token usage tracking with cost reporting - Web page fetching for research - Parameter profiles to optimize Claude for different tasks - Conversation history with ability to resume previous discussions - Trust mode for concise output

Example usage: ``` # Create a project janito "Create a Python script that fetches data from the GitHub API"

# Enhance it janito "Add error handling and rate limiting"

# Continue the conversation janito --continue "Add command-line arguments" ```

It's built with Python and requires an Anthropic API key. I'd appreciate any feedback or suggestions for improvement.

GitHub: https://github.com/joaompinto/janito PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/janito/

Install: pip install janito

Isn't this just like Claude Code/Aider, how is it different?

And why not contribute to Aider.chat at https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider

Huge fan of Aider, but one thing it's lacking is dealing with non coding tasks. I've been wanting to use it as an assistant in Obsidian, but it's got shortcomings dealing with and editing MD files. Would love to see another project tackle that or expand Aider for non coding tasks.

Might break anthropic’s terms of service by making a competing product or service (gasp)

What’s with the rush to send our code over the open internet to train other people’s bots? Consider the consequences

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