# Shell Projects at AI Tinkerers

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The Shell is the core command-line interpreter: it executes user commands, manages system processes, and runs scripts (e.g., Bash) to automate complex operations.

The Shell acts as the critical interface between a user and the operating system kernel, accepting human-readable commands—like `ls`, `cd`, or `grep`—and translating them for execution. This technology is a powerful macro processor and a full programming language, supporting variables, control flow (if/then/else), and functions. The most prevalent example is the GNU Bourne-Again SHell (Bash), which is the default on most Linux and macOS systems; it’s widely used for system administration, software development, and automating tasks via shell scripts.

- Official technology site: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 3
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Inside Claude Code's Brain: Debugging Claude's Behavior with Log Analysis](https://tokyo.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_V2jLkUS8ltU)

Live demo of cclogviewer — an open-source MCP server and CLI tool that reads Claude Code's internal JSONL session logs and turns them into structured, queryable data: tool usage stats, session timelines, token counts, and error summaries. I'll walk through how it works, how to set it up, and how I used it to analyze 650 automated Claude Code sessions to diagnose why skills only activate ~50% of the time and how to create a logs-based improvement loop for Claude Code Subagents.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Tokyo - Toranomon Meetup - February 19, 2026 — 2026-02-19 — Tokyo
- Public talk page: https://tokyo.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_V2jLkUS8ltU

### [.unicornsh - A LLM in your (zsh) shell that can see the output of your previous commands](https://amsterdam.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_nssOUI_eKbg)

This project is a proof of concept for having an LLM assistant in the shell, that has context on what you were working on before it was called. Real-time assistance on anything you encounter in the shell without copy-pasting!

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - Inaugural Meetup - May — 2024-05-23 — Amsterdam
- Public talk page: https://amsterdam.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_nssOUI_eKbg

### [Savvy - Automatically Create & Share Runbooks from the terminal](https://palo-alto.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_yaeEqY9h8m8)

Runbooks are a critical source of knowledge that improves the bus factor for companies and facilitates a sustainable oncall rotation. However, most runbooks are manually created, out of date and often stored in Google Docs or the equivalent. Any developer who has followed one will tell you that half the time they expect it to not work and the other time it really doesn't work :) AI make automated, Reliable and easy to follow runbooks are possible

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Palo Alto - Inaugural Meetup — 2024-05-01 — Palo Alto
- Public talk page: https://palo-alto.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_yaeEqY9h8m8

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