Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell

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7 months ago

I built qqqa as an open-source project, because I was tired of bouncing between shell, ChatGPT / the browser for rather simple commands. It comes with two binaries: qq and qa.

qq means "quick question" - it is read-only, perfect for the commands I always forget.

qa means "quick agent" - it is qq's sibling that can run things, but only after showing its plan and getting an approval by the user.

It is built entirely around the Unix philosophy of focused tools, stateless by default - pretty much the opposite of what most coding agent are focusing on.

Personally I've had the best experience using Groq + gpt-oss-20b, as it feels almost instant (up to 1k tokens/s according to Groq) - but any OpenAI-compatible API will do.

Curious if the HN crowd finds it useful - and of course, AMA.

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