iwt: I Wish To...

A cli pipeline helper tool, backed by openai, inspired by rg, jq, etc. But you know .... magic instead of science. Make a wish!

This is currently using the OpenAI API. I don't have access to GPT-4 API yet, so this is using gpt-3.5-turbo-16k. Eventually that should be configurable, and even cooler would be to support alternate APIs or local models. Let's see if we can get it working at all first though, k?

Usage

First, set up your OpenAI API key:

sh export OPENAI_API_KEY=yourkeyhere

Generally: <some command> | iwt <some wish> | <some other command>

Example: curl https://news.ycombinator.com | iwt turn this into a csv of articles with title, domain name, link, points > out.csv

That should output a csv with a row for each article and a title, domain name, link, and points. Yup. Like magic.

Concept / Ideas

• Data input from STDIN
• Data output to STDOUT
• Instructions as the parameters
• Either explicit or implicit row-based processing. Maybe we should take the first chunk of data and ask the AI if it should be row based or not?
• Use TTY for additional guidance from the operator?
• Break long input into batches within token/context limits
• Warn (again, via TTY) for LARGE input?
• Progress via STDERR

References, Simlar Things, Cool Stuff

• Initial source used from async-openai chat example (MIT)
• plz is a universal CLI tool that converts plain-English into an executable command.
• openai-cli
• Another openai-cli
• prompt
• chat-openai-cli