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Tutorial

What you'll need

You will need to have your own OpenAI apikey in order to use GPT-Term.

Installation

To install GPT-Term you can use your favorite package manager.

pnpm i -g gpt-term

Starting a new chat

The first time you use the chat function it will prompt you for your key if one was not found. The key will be encrypted and stored in a text file on your machine.

gpt-term chat

The chat history is also saved to disk when you exit the chat, this allows it to remember what you were doing last. To prevent this you can pass a command line option to clear it

gpt-term chat --clear-history

To exit a chat you can type quit exit bye.

Using with npx

npx gpt-term chat

npx downloads gpt-term to it's cache, to remove it run

rm -r ~/.npm/_npx/*/node_modules/gpt-term