# Terminal Projects at AI Tinkerers

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The Terminal is your direct, text-based interface (CLI) to a computer's operating system: raw power, zero GUI overhead.

This is the Command-Line Interface (CLI): a non-graphical environment for executing commands directly against the OS kernel. It’s the essential tool for developers and system administrators, enabling high-efficiency task automation and remote server management. You execute commands via a shell (like Bash or PowerShell) to perform complex operations with minimal resource use. For example, a single command like `ssh user@192.168.1.1` provides secure, direct access to a remote machine, and tools like `git` or `npm` are entirely dependent on this interface. It offers unparalleled control and speed, bypassing the mouse-driven Graphical User Interface (GUI) entirely.

- Official technology site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 3
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Building a Real-Time Terminal Messenger on LinkedIn's Private APIs with Bun, Ink, and a Git-Backed Message Store](https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_0AqXN-gxTTM)

Allman is a two-layer system for LinkedIn messaging from the terminal: a CLI that syncs, sends, and streams LinkedIn messages into a git-versioned file store, and a TUI that renders it as a full two-pane Ink/React terminal messenger with live updates, auto-backfill, and real-time presence. The demo shows the TUI in action — navigating conversations, composing replies, watching the status bar update as messages stream in over LinkedIn's SSE channel, and kicking off a sync that backfills an entire conversation history while showing live progress counts. Under the hood, the TUI never touches the network directly. Every write — sends, syncs, searches — shells out to the lilac binary, which is embedded inside the compiled TUI executable as a bundled asset. Every read — conversation list, message thread, slug lookup — goes straight to JSONL files on disk, so navigation is instant with zero subprocess overhead per keystroke. The key learning or takeaway is that private APIs, even when obfuscated, are easily reverse-engineered by coding harnesses. Claude Opus 4.6 processed the compiled LinkedIn binary overnight, completely autonomously.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Seattle: GTM Engineering — April Meetup — 2026-04-23 — Seattle
- Public talk page: https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_0AqXN-gxTTM

### [How to Build An Agent](https://singapore.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_Qjttq5B98qY)

Inspired by Thorsten Ball's article on How to Build An Agent, I'll be demonstrating how anyone can build an agent on their terminal, called with the CLI. We will be using Anthropic's Claude and have it give us a couple of tools to interact with files and write code.

- Event context: AIT Singapore: scalable agentic workflows - 12th August 2025 — 2025-08-12 — Singapore
- Public talk page: https://singapore.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_Qjttq5B98qY

### [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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