claw-cli — AI agent in your terminal

AI agent in
your terminal

One-shot questions, interactive REPL, pipe mode.
Powered by agentic-claw.

$ npm i -g claw-cli copy

Three modes, one command

Ask a question, start a conversation, or pipe in a file.

terminal

# One-shot $ claw "What is quantum computing?" Quantum computing uses qubits in superposition... # Interactive REPL $ claw -i > Tell me about qubits Qubits are the fundamental unit of quantum info... > What did I just ask? You asked about qubits — I remember. # Pipe mode $ cat report.md | claw "summarize" • Revenue grew 23% YoY • Cloud became the largest segment # JSON output $ claw --json "Hello" { "answer": "Hello!", "rounds": 1 }

What you get

💬 One-shot

Ask a question, get an answer, done. Scripts and automation friendly.

🔄 Interactive REPL

Multi-turn conversations with memory. Context preserved across turns.

📄 Pipe mode

Pipe files and stdin. Combine with other CLI tools. Unix philosophy.

🌊 Streaming

Tokens arrive as they're generated. No waiting for the full response.

📋 JSON output

Clean JSON on stdout for scripting. Debug logs go to stderr.

🔧 Any provider

Anthropic, OpenAI, or any compatible API. Custom base URL and proxy.

Options

Flag

Description

-i, --interactive

Interactive REPL mode

--config

Configure API key + provider

--provider <name>

LLM provider (anthropic / openai)

--model <name>

Model name

--api-key <key>

API key (or set AGENTIC_API_KEY)

--base-url <url>

Custom API base URL

--proxy <url>

Proxy URL

--system <prompt>

System prompt

--json

JSON output (clean stdout)

--no-stream

Disable streaming

--version

Show version