oc-shell wraps your everyday interactive shell so the full OpenCues surface works at the command line. Summon the input box with a hotkey, type ffmpeg command to convert a video to web-ready mp4 _, and the command lands ready to run.
A standalone app, not a patch
Unlike the other integrations, the terminal host is OpenCues' own app: there's no upstream tool to patch and no fork to maintain. opencues install shell sets it up; oc-shell starts a wrapped session around your normal shell.
What it's good at
- Command lookups: describe what you want, get the incantation, with the
_. - Quick answers without leaving the terminal: math, conversions,
weather _,nvda _. - System control mid-flow:
volume 40 _. - The same word cues, tips, and agent tasks as every other host, from the same
~/.cues/config.
Honest scope
It wraps interactive composition: you review every generated command before pressing Enter, the same draft-side boundary as everywhere else in OpenCues. Nothing executes on its own.
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