Kel

Kel is a free and open source AI assistant that runs in the command line. A user asks a question at the terminal and gets an answer from a large language model without leaving the CLI. The site pitches it as a way to automate repetitive tasks and make the command line more capable. Kel supports OpenAI, Anthropic and Ollama models as well as OpenAI Assistants. It uses a bring your own API key model, so the user supplies an OpenAI or Anthropic key, and the site says support for other models is coming. A file can be uploaded to an assistant so the user can chat with their own documents. The source code is on GitHub and contributions are invited. The tool is aimed at developers, testers and other people who work in a terminal and want model access there. It is a published tool with a demo on the site, not a waitlist. Kel itself costs nothing. Users pay their model provider for API usage through their own key. The site also invites people to contact its author about a support plan, and no support plan prices are published.