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# y-cli 🚀
A tiny command-line interface chat application that brings AI conversations to your terminal.
Check out [y-gui](https://github.com/luohy15/y-gui) for a web-based version of y-cli.
## ✨ Features
- 📝 Flexible storage options:
- Local JSONL files for easy access and sync
- Cloudflare D1 for cloud storage
- 💬 Interactive chat interface with tool execution visualization
- 🤖 Support for multiple bot configurations (any base_url/api_key/model combination). Supported api format type:
- [OpenAI chat completion streaming format](https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/streaming)
- [Dify chat-messages streaming format](https://docs.dify.ai/guides/application-publishing/developing-with-apis)
- 🤔 Support for reasoning model
- [Deepseek-r1 reasoning_content](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/reasoning_model) output print
- [OpenAI o3-mini reasoning_effort](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning) configuration
- 🔗 MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration:
- Client support with multiple server configurations (stdio/SSE)
- Persistent daemon
- Custom prompt configurations
- 🧐 Simple "Deep Research" mode by prompt configuration
- [Demo](https://cdn.luohy15.com/chat/660831.html)
## Demo


[asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/709735)
### Multiple bot configurations
```
➜ ~ y-cli bot list
Name API Key API Type Base URL Model Print Speed Description OpenRouter Config MCP Servers Reasoning Effort
----------- ----------- ---------- ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ------------- ------------- ------------------- ------------- ------------------
default sk-or-v1... N/A https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.co... google/gemini-2.0-flash-001 None N/A Yes No N/A
claude sk-or-v1... N/A https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.co... anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet:beta None N/A Yes todo N/A
o3-mini sk-or-v1... N/A https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.co... openai/o3-mini None N/A Yes No low
ds-chat sk-or-v1... N/A https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.co... deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324:free None N/A Yes tavily N/A
dify-bot app-2drF... dify https://api.dify.ai/v1 None N/A No No N/A
```
### Multiple MCP servers
```
➜ ~ y-cli mcp list
Name Type Command/URL Arguments/Token Environment Auto-Confirm
-------------- ------ ------------------- ----------------- -------------- --------------
brave-search sse https://router.m... brave_web_s...
todo stdio uvx mcp-todo
exa-mcp-server stdio npx exa-mcp-server EXA_API_KEY...
```
## ⚡ Quick Start
### Prerequisites
Required:
1. uv
2. OpenRouter API key
Setup Instructions:
1. **uv**
- Follow the [official installation guide](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/)
- uv will automatically manage Python installation
2. **OpenRouter API key**
- Visit [OpenRouter Settings](https://openrouter.ai/settings/keys)
- Create a new API key
- Save it for the initialization step
### Run without Installation
```bash
uvx y-cli
```
### Install with uv tool
```bash
uv tool install y-cli
```
### Initialize
```bash
y-cli init
```
### Start Chat
```bash
y-cli chat
```
## 🛠️ Usage
```bash
y-cli [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
```
### Commands
- `chat` Start a new chat conversation or continue an existing one
- `list` List chat conversations with optional filtering
- `share` Share a chat conversation by generating a shareable link
- `import` Import chats from an external file (useful for storage migration)
- `bot` Manage bot configurations:
- `add` Add a new bot configuration
- `list` List all configured bots
- `delete` Delete a bot configuration
- `mcp` Manage MCP server configurations:
- `add` Add a new MCP server configuration
- `list` List all configured MCP servers
- `delete` Delete an MCP server configuration
- `daemon` Manage the MCP daemon:
- `start` Start the MCP daemon
- `stop` Stop the MCP daemon
- `status` Check daemon status
- `log` View daemon logs
- `restart` Restart the daemon
- `prompt` Manage prompt configurations:
- `add` Add a new prompt configuration
- `list` List all configured prompts
- `delete` Delete a prompt configuration
### Options
- `--help` Show help message and exit
## 📚 Documentation
Visit the [deepwiki page](https://deepwiki.com/luohy15/y-cli) for comprehensive project documentation and guides.
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