Hi-shell
type commands in English, get ghost text in zsh
Details
- External ID
- 48609653
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Hi-shell
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12568306010928962
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and messaging chat assistants
- Vertical
- —
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- natural language to shell command assistant
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a shell utility (Zsh widget) that captures prompt input, queries an LLM API for shell commands, and injects ghost text suggestions via terminal escape sequences.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Feature requests: Support for locally-installed Claude with existing login credentials
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 114 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #97 of 115 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 214 days after the earliest competitor.
- Zcomplete · hn · 2026-08-21 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Smarter Shell History for Zsh · hn · 2026-08-12 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- mksawk · github · 2026-09-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- jev-shell-history · github · 2026-09-18 · 100 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- jev-desktop · github · 2026-09-19 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- gits · github · 2026-09-20 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- jevyoumean · github · 2026-09-21 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- VibeSH · hn · 2026-06-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.