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A PTY-first shim that remembers what worked (per repo) and suggests fixes when you get the details wrong.
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I’ve been building a little tool that I wish existed years ago.
You know the moment when you mostly remember a command, but not quite?
--prety instead of --pretty.When it’s me at the keyboard, I fix it and move on. When it’s an AI agent running commands, it often turns into a little loop of --help, scrolling, and retries.
So I made ackchyually.
It’s the “ackchyually…” friend for your CLI: it remembers what worked (per repo) and suggests the right command when you get the details wrong.
If you want the short version: ackchyually.sh
ackchyually sits in front of your existing tools (like git, gh, etc.) using shims.
When you run a command successfully, it remembers the invocation for that repo.
Later, if you typo something and the tool errors, ackchyually can nudge you with something that worked before here.
That “here” part matters. The right command in one repo is not always the right command in another.
Install:
curl -fsSL https://ackchyually.sh/install.sh | shThen install shims for the tools you want it to help with:
ackchyually shim install git ghAnd persist the shim directory at the front of your PATH:
ackchyually shim enableTo confirm it’s wired up correctly, use which:
which git# ~/.local/share/ackchyually/shims/gitIf which prints something else, your shim directory isn’t first in PATH yet.
Here’s a very real kind of failure:
git log -1 --prety=%sGit complains. Ackchyually can respond with a “this worked before here” suggestion:
git log -1 '--pretty=%s'It’s not trying to be magic. It’s just giving you a fast path back to something you already proved works in this repo.
This started as a tool for me, but it’s become even more useful with agents in the loop.
If you’re building an agent that touches your terminal, you want it to:
That’s the whole vibe of ackchyually.
If you try it and it feels helpful (or if it feels annoying in a specific way), I’d love to hear about it:
I’m going to keep iterating on this until it feels like a genuinely useful teammate.
If you’ve ever yelled “I know this command…”, this tool is for you.
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