gemini-sh

Chat with Gemini in your terminal

A simple shell script for using gemini api in your terminal. Chat like you're in the web browser.

Table of contents

• Why
• Features
• Screenshot
• How to use
• Dependencies
• Variables
• Contributing
• License

Why

Using LLMs in a browser is convenient, but they can sometimes be memory-intensive and require switching between tabs. To address this, I've integrated the free Gemini API into a bash script, creating a lightweight, customizable LLM within my terminal that eliminates the need for context-switching.

Features

• Use Gemini API in your terminal, with a chat-like interface
• Store chat history in txt for better conversation context
• Syntax highlighting response using bat command
• Quick copy last response with xclip
• Easy for configuring system prompt and prompt for every request

Screenshot

How to use

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/ascodeasice/gemini-sh.git
cd gemini-sh

2. Create api key file

echo "YOUR_API_KEY" >> gemini_api_key.txt # replace YOUR_API_KEY with your api key

3. Make the script executable

chmod +x gemini.sh

4. Configure the script (optional)

5. Run the script

./gemini.sh

Dependencies (optional)

• bat for syntax highlight output

• xclip for copy last response

  sudo apt install xclip

Variables

• USE_BAT: output with bat command
• MODEL: which Gemini model to use
• SYSTEM_PROMPT: system prompt that is added before every API request
• QUESTION_POSTFIX: text that is added after every new question

Contributing

Contributions to this script are welcome! Please open an issue or a pull request on te GitHub repository.

License

Tis script is licensed under the MIT License.