aipick

Introduction

aipick is an interactive CLI tool leveraging multiple AI models for quick and efficient handling of simple requests such as variable name recommendations.

Key Features

• Multi-AI Support: Integrates with OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Mistral AI, and more.
• Reactive CLI: Enables simultaneous requests to multiple AIs and selection of the best AI response.
• Custom System Prompt: Supports user-defined system prompt templates.
• Clipboard Integration: Automatically copies selected responses to the clipboard for easy use.

Supported Providers

Remote

• OpenAI
• Anthropic Claude
• Gemini
• Mistral AI (including Codestral)
• Cohere
• Groq
• Perplexity
• Huggingface (Unofficial)

Local

• Ollama

Setup

The minimum supported version of Node.js is the v18. Check your Node.js version with node --version.

1. Install aipick:

npm install -g aipick

2. Set up API keys (at least one key must be set):

aipick config set OPENAI.key=<your key>
aipick config set ANTHROPIC.key=<your key>
# ... (similar commands for other providers)

3. Run aipick:

aipick -m "Why is the sky blue?"

👉 Tip: Use the aip alias if aipick is too long for you.

Using Locally

You can also use your model for free with Ollama and it is available to use both Ollama and remote providers simultaneously.

1. Install Ollama from https://ollama.com

2. Start it with your model

ollama run llama3.1 # model you want use. ex) codestral, gemma2

3. Set the model and host

aipick config set OLLAMA.model=<your model>

If you want to use ollama, you must set OLLAMA.model.

4. Run aipick

aipick -m "Why is the sky blue?"

👉 Tip: Ollama can run LLMs in parallel from v0.1.33. Please see this section.

Usage

CLI Options

• --message or -m: Message to ask AI (required)
• --systemPrompt or -s: System prompt for fine-tuning

Example:

aipick --message "Explain quantum computing" --systemPrompt "You are a physics expert"

Configuration

Reading and Setting Configuration

• Read: aipick config get <key>
• Set: aipick config set <key>=<value>

Example:

aipick config get OPENAI.key
aipick config set OPENAI.generate=3 GEMINI.temperature=0.5

How to Configure in detail

1. Command-line arguments: use the format --[ModelName].[SettingKey]=value

aipick -m "Why is the sky blue?" --OPENAI.generate=3

2. Configuration file: use INI format in the ~/.aipick file or use set command.
   Example ~/.aipick:

# General Settings
logging=true
temperature=1.0

[OPENAI]
# Model-Specific Settings
key="<your-api-key>"
temperature=0.8
generate=2

[OLLAMA]
temperature=0.7
model[]=llama3.1
model[]=codestral

The priority of settings is: Command-line Arguments > Model-Specific Settings > General Settings > Default Values.

General Settings

The following settings can be applied to most models, but support may vary. Please check the documentation for each specific model to confirm which settings are supported.

Setting	Description	Default
systemPrompt	System Prompt text	-
systemPromptPath	Path to system prompt file	-
timeout	Request timeout (milliseconds)	10000
temperature	Model's creativity (0.0 - 2.0)	0.7
maxTokens	Maximum number of tokens to generate	1024
logging	Enable logging	true

👉 Tip: To set the General Settings for each model, use the following command.

aipick config set OPENAI.maxTokens="2048"
aipick config set ANTHROPIC.logging=false

systemPrompt

• Allow users to specify a custom system prompt

aipick config set systemPrompt="Your communication style is friendly, engaging, and informative."

systemPrompt takes precedence over SystemPromptPath and does not apply at the same time.

systemPromptPath

• Allow users to specify a custom file path for their own system prompt template
• Please see Custom Prompt Template

aipick config set systemPromptPath="/path/to/user/prompt.txt"

timeout

The timeout for network requests in milliseconds.

Default: 10_000 (10 seconds)

aipick config set timeout=20000 # 20s

temperature

The temperature (0.0-2.0) is used to control the randomness of the output

Default: 0.7

aipick config set temperature=0

maxTokens

The maximum number of tokens that the AI models can generate.

Default: 1024

aipick config set maxTokens=3000

logging

Default: true

Option that allows users to decide whether to generate a log file capturing the responses. The log files will be stored in the ~/.aipick_log directory(user's home).

• You can remove all logs below comamnd.

aipick log removeAll 

Model-Specific Settings

Some models mentioned below are subject to change.

OpenAI

Setting	Description	Default
key	API key	-
model	Model to use	gpt-3.5-turbo
url	API endpoint URL	https://api.openai.com
path	API path	/v1/chat/completions
proxy	Proxy settings	-
generate	Number of responses to generate (1-5)	1

OPENAI.key

The OpenAI API key. You can retrieve it from OpenAI API Keys page.

aipick config set OPENAI.key="your api key"

OPENAI.model

Default: gpt-3.5-turbo

The Chat Completions (/v1/chat/completions) model to use. Consult the list of models available in the OpenAI Documentation.

Tip: If you have access, try upgrading to gpt-4 for next-level code analysis. It can handle double the input size, but comes at a higher cost. Check out OpenAI's website to learn more.

aipick config set OPENAI.model=gpt-4

OPENAI.url

Default: https://api.openai.com

The OpenAI URL. Both https and http protocols supported. It allows to run local OpenAI-compatible server.

OPENAI.path

Default: /v1/chat/completions

The OpenAI Path.

OPENAI.generate

Default: 1

The number of commit messages to generate to pick from.

Note, this will use more tokens as it generates more results.

aipick config set OPENAI.generate=2

Ollama

Setting	Description	Default
model	Model(s) to use (comma-separated list)	-
host	Ollama host URL	http://localhost:11434
timeout	Request timeout (milliseconds)	100_000

OLLAMA.model

The Ollama Model. Please see a list of models available

aipick config set OLLAMA.model="llama3"
aipick config set OLLAMA.model="llama3,codellama" # for multiple models

aipick config add OLLAMA.model="gemma2" # Only Ollama.model can be added.

OLLAMA.model is only string array type to support multiple Ollama. Please see this section.

OLLAMA.host

Default: http://localhost:11434

The Ollama host

aipick config set OLLAMA.host=<host>

OLLAMA.timeout

Default: 10_000 (10 seconds)

Request timeout for the Ollama.

aipick config set OLLAMA.timeout=<timeout>

Unsupported Options

Ollama does not support the following options in General Settings.

• maxTokens

HuggingFace

Setting	Description	Default
cookie	Authentication cookie	-
model	Model to use	CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-plus

HUGGINGFACE.cookie

The Huggingface Chat Cookie. Please check how to get cookie

# Please be cautious of Escape characters(\", \') in browser cookie string
aipick config set HUGGINGFACE.cookie="your-cooke"

HUGGINGFACE.model

Default: CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-plus

Supported:

• CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-plus
• meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct
• HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-orpo-141b-A35b-v0.1
• mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1
• NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPO
• 01-ai/Yi-1.5-34B-Chat
• mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2
• microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct

aipick config set HUGGINGFACE.model="mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2"

Unsupported Options

Huggingface does not support the following options in General Settings.

• maxTokens
• timeout
• temperature

Gemini

Setting	Description	Default
key	API key	-
model	Model to use	gemini-1.5-pro-latest

GEMINI.key

The Gemini API key. If you don't have one, create a key in Google AI Studio.

aipick config set GEMINI.key="your api key"

GEMINI.model

Default: gemini-1.5-pro-latest

Supported:

• gemini-1.5-pro-latest
• gemini-1.5-flash-latest

aipick config set GEMINI.model="gemini-1.5-flash-latest"

Unsupported Options

Gemini does not support the following options in General Settings.

• timeout

Anthropic

Setting	Description	Default
key	API key	-
model	Model to use	claude-3-haiku-20240307

ANTHROPIC.key

The Anthropic API key. To get started with Anthropic Claude, request access to their API at anthropic.com/earlyaccess.

ANTHROPIC.model

Default: claude-3-haiku-20240307

Supported:

• claude-3-haiku-20240307
• claude-3-sonnet-20240229
• claude-3-opus-20240229
• claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620

aipick config set ANTHROPIC.model="claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620"

Unsupported Options

Anthropic does not support the following options in General Settings.

• timeout

Mistral

Setting	Description	Default
key	API key	-
model	Model to use	mistral-tiny

MISTRAL.key

The Mistral API key. If you don't have one, please sign up and subscribe in Mistral Console.

MISTRAL.model

Default: mistral-tiny

Supported:

• open-mistral-7b
• mistral-tiny-2312
• mistral-tiny
• open-mixtral-8x7b
• mistral-small-2312
• mistral-small
• mistral-small-2402
• mistral-small-latest
• mistral-medium-latest
• mistral-medium-2312
• mistral-medium
• mistral-large-latest
• mistral-large-2402
• mistral-embed

Codestral

Setting	Description	Default
key	API key	-
model	Model to use	codestral-latest

CODESTRAL.key

The Codestral API key. If you don't have one, please sign up and subscribe in Mistral Console.

CODESTRAL.model

Default: codestral-latest

Supported:

• codestral-latest
• codestral-2405

aipick config set CODESTRAL.model="codestral-2405"

Cohere

Setting	Description	Default
key	API key	-
model	Model to use	command

COHERE.key

The Cohere API key. If you don't have one, please sign up and get the API key in Cohere Dashboard.

COHERE.model

Default: command

Supported models:

• command
• command-nightly
• command-light
• command-light-nightly

aipick config set COHERE.model="command-r"

Unsupported Options

Cohere does not support the following options in General Settings.

• timeout

Groq

Setting	Description	Default
key	API key	-
model	Model to use	gemma-7b-it

GROQ.key

The Groq API key. If you don't have one, please sign up and get the API key in Groq Console.

GROQ.model

Default: gemma2-9b-it

Supported:

• gemma2-9b-it
• gemma-7b-it
• llama-3.1-70b-versatile
• llama-3.1-8b-instant
• llama3-70b-8192
• llama3-8b-8192
• llama3-groq-70b-8192-tool-use-preview
• llama3-groq-8b-8192-tool-use-preview

aipick config set GROQ.model="llama3-8b-8192"

Perplexity

Setting	Description	Default
key	API key	-
model	Model to use	llama-3.1-sonar-small-128k-chat

PERPLEXITY.key

The Perplexity API key. If you don't have one, please sign up and get the API key in Perplexity

PERPLEXITY.model

Default: llama-3.1-sonar-small-128k-chat

Supported:

• llama-3.1-sonar-small-128k-chat
• llama-3.1-sonar-large-128k-chat
• llama-3.1-sonar-large-128k-online
• llama-3.1-sonar-small-128k-online
• llama-3.1-8b-instruct
• llama-3.1-70b-instruct
• llama-3.1-8b
• llama-3.1-70b

The models mentioned above are subject to change.

aipick config set PERPLEXITY.model="llama-3.1-70b"

Upgrading

Check the installed version with:

aipick --version

If it's not the latest version, run:

npm update -g aipick

Custom Prompt Template

aipick supports custom prompt templates through the systemPromptPath option. This feature allows you to define your own system prompt structure, giving you more control over the AI response generation process.

Using the promptPath Option

To use a custom prompt template, specify the path to your template file when running the tool:

aipick config set systemPromptPath="/path/to/user/prompt.txt"

Example Template

Here's an example of how your custom system template might look:

You are a Software Development Tutor.
Your mission is to guide users from zero knowledge to understanding the fundamentals of software.
Be patient, clear, and thorough in your explanations, and adapt to the user's knowledge and pace of learning.

NOTE

• For the systemPromptPath option, set the template path, not the template content.
• If you want to set the template content, use systemPrompt option

Loading Multiple Ollama Models

You can load and make simultaneous requests to multiple models using Ollama's experimental feature, the OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS option.

• OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS: Load multiple models simultaneously

Setup Guide

Follow these steps to set up and utilize multiple models simultaneously:

1. Running Ollama Server

First, launch the Ollama server with the OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS environment variable set. This variable specifies the maximum number of models to be loaded simultaneously. For example, to load up to 3 models, use the following command:

OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS=3 ollama serve

Refer to configuration for detailed instructions.

2. Configuring aipick

Next, set up aipick to specify multiple models. You can assign a list of models, separated by commas(,), to the OLLAMA.model environment variable. Here's how you do it:

aipick config set OLLAMA.model="mistral,llama3.1"
# or 
aipick config add OLLAMA.model="mistral"
aipick config add OLLAMA.model="llama3.1"

With this command, aipick is instructed to utilize both the "mistral" and "llama3.1" models when making requests to the Ollama server.

3. Run aipick

aipick

Note that this feature is available starting from Ollama version 0.1.33.

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Disclaimer and Risks

This project uses functionalities from external APIs but is not officially affiliated with or endorsed by their providers. Users are responsible for complying with API terms, rate limits, and policies.

Contributing

For bug fixes or feature implementations, please check the Contribution Guide.

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