Mods brings LLM capabilities to the Unix command line in the most natural way possible: through pipes. Run git diff | mods 'summarize these changes' or cat error.log | mods 'explain this error' and get beautifully rendered markdown responses right in your terminal. The tool reads from stdin, sends the content along with your prompt to any configured LLM, and renders the response with syntax highlighting, code blocks, and formatted text using Charm's Glamour markdown renderer.
Provider support is comprehensive: OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Ollama for local models, Azure OpenAI, Groq, and any OpenAI-compatible API endpoint. The bring-your-own-key model means you pay only for actual API usage. Conversation history can be saved and continued across sessions. The tool supports both interactive and non-interactive modes, making it suitable for both ad-hoc queries and scripted automation pipelines.
Mods is MIT licensed and remains part of the Charm ecosystem — the team behind terminal UI libraries such as Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Glow — but its GitHub repository is now archived after a March 2026 push history. Treat it as a historical open-source CLI reference rather than an actively maintained terminal AI product. Compared with shell_gpt or newer CLI assistants, Mods is best evaluated for its Unix-pipe ergonomics, provider-configuration ideas, and polished markdown rendering, not for a current roadmap.
