Clai Command Line AI: Stdin to LLM to Stdout — A Unix-Philosophy Review
What Is Clai? — Stdin to LLM to Stdout Clai is a command-line AI tool that reads text from standard input, sends it to a large language model, and writes the response to standard output. That is it. No interactive REPL, no session state, no chat history, no plugin ecosystem, no GUI. Written in Go and released as a single binary, Clai embodies the Unix philosophy: do one thing well and compose with other tools via pipes. At version 0.3.0 as of July 2026, it is an early-stage project with a clear philosophical stance that sets it apart from every other AI CLI tool on the market. ...