Cook
A portable terminal AI agent (OSS, MIT)
Details
- External ID
- 47262711
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Cook
- Website domain
- getcook.dev
- Launched
- March 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2853628536285363
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai agent infrastructure and tooling
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- portable terminal ai agent
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a portable terminal CLI tool that reads user input, makes LLM API calls with function calling, and executes local shell commands and file edits.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: claude -p (Anthropic CLI with session history)
Concerns raised: Installation script installs globally, no option for local binary download
Feature requests: Wrap claude -p sessions and pretty-print JSONL output, Standalone binary download without global installation
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 2687 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1836 of 2688 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 127 days after the earliest competitor.
- Aurict · hn · 2026-09-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.81
- Vehla · hn · 2026-09-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs · hn · 2026-04-08 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- TermHub · hn · 2026-04-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- Fleet · hn · 2026-06-29 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- Wmux · hn · 2026-06-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- jolo · github · 2026-09-10 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- termirai · github · 2026-09-23 · 87 upvotes · similarity 0.71
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.