Introduction

What clai is, its CLI commands, supported LLM vendors, and the clai.chat cloud roadmap.

clai is a command-line interface that integrates multi-vendor AI models directly into your terminal workflow. Built as a fast, composable Go binary, clai follows unix philosophy: pipe stdin into prompts, stream responses to stdout, chain tool calls over the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and manage conversations without leaving your shell.

Core commands

Command	Shorthand	Description
`clai query <prompt>`	`q`	Run a one-shot query with arguments and optional piped `stdin`.
`clai chat`	`c`	List, continue (`c c <id>`), summarize (`c s`), inspect (`c dir`), or delete saved and external coding-agent conversations.
`clai replay` / `dir-replay`	`re`/`dre`	Print the most recent global reply (`re`) or directory-scoped conversation reply (`dre`).
`clai photo <prompt>`	`p`	Generate images with configured photo models (`-pm`, `-pd`, `-pp`).
`clai video <prompt>`	`v`	Generate videos with configured video models (`-vm`, `-vd`, `-vp`).
`clai audio transcribe`	`a t`	Transcribe audio files or `stdin` (`-`) with configured audio models (`-am`, `-af`).
`clai tools` / `clai mcp`	`t`	List available builtin and cached MCP tools (`clai tools`), or authorize MCP servers (`clai mcp auth <server>`).
`clai profiles` / `confdir`	—	List configured profiles (`clai profiles`) or print the active configuration directory (`clai confdir`).
`clai setup`	`s`	Interactive TUI wizard for configuring general configs, model files, profiles, MCP servers, and shell contexts.
`clai version`	—	Print the installed `clai` version and build information.

Supported LLM vendors

clai supports major cloud and local model providers out of the box:

Anthropic (Claude Opus, Sonnet, Haiku)
OpenAI (GPT and reasoning models)
Google (Gemini models)
Mistral, DeepSeek, XAI (Grok), and OpenRouter
Ollama for local offline models

See Supported vendors and Configuration for vendor setup details.

The community hub

clai.chat hosts one service beside the CLI: a public hub for the parts of a setup that are worth copying.

Publish: a profile, MCP server, shell context, SKILL.md skill, theme or prompt. Anyone can read and download it.
Rate: a signed-in reader gives one to five stars. One rating per account per config; an author cannot rate their own.
Download: the raw file, and the path it belongs in. Nothing syncs on its own and no key is uploaded.

See Share and rate configs, browse the hub, and read Quickstart to get going.