hai

A REPL for hackers using LLMs.

Highlights

• ⚡️ Starts in 30ms (on my machine).
• 📦 Single, standalone binary—no installation or dependencies required.
• 🪶 Lightweight (< 9MB compressed) for your machine, SBCs, and servers.
• 🗯 Run many instances for simultaneous conversations.
• 🤖 Supports AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, xAI, and Ollama (local) all in a single conversation.
• 🕶 Go incognito hai -i.
• ⚙ Give AI the power to run programs on your computer.
• 🍝 Share AI prompt-pasta publicly using the task repository.
• 📂 Load images, code, or text into the conversation.
• 🔗 Load URLs with automatic article extraction and markdown conversion.
• 🎨 Highlights syntax for markdown and code snippets.
• 🖼 Render output to browser.
• 💾 Auto-saves last conversation for easy resumption.
• ☁ Store and share data on the cloud for easy access by AIs.
• 📧 Get emails from AI—send notifications or share data.
• 🛠 Open source: Apache License 2.0
• 💻 Supports Linux and macOS. Windows needs testing (help!).

Video Walkthrough (YouTube)

More videos

• Using hai to manage a personal calendar
• Using hai to get a code review
• Using the hai api
• Using hai to encrypt/decrypt local files as assets
• Using hai to analyze YouTube transcripts
• Using hai with a search engine
• Making the hai walkthrough with ffmpeg

Quickstart

$ curl -LsSf https://hai.superego.ai/hai-installer.sh | sh
$ hai

Other install methods

If you're using Windows or require another method for installation, see our installation section.