CLI Utilities

The aia program uses several CLI-based utility programs to augment its capabilities. The major ones are of course the backend utilities that send the prompts to a generative AI model for a response.

Here are the other major CLI-based utilities used:

• [[fzf]]
• [[ripgrep]] (aka rq)

Other optional utilities that are helpful:

• [[direnv]] allows dynamic setting and unsetting of system environment variables depending upon which directory tree you are currently working
• a text editor to create and edit prompt text files
• [[just]] a task running or any other task running to support your workflow
• utilities for processing HTML, XML and JSON files into useable prompt text. For example jq, xidel, curl, wget2