Meet Aissist - your personal AI command line sidekick
Most AI tools live in the cloud.
Aissist lives with you — right in your terminal.
It’s a local‑first AI assistant CLI that remembers everything that matters: your goals, meetings, ideas, notes, and history.
When you ask it something, it actually knows your context.
🧩 What it does
- Stores your life context — goals, notes, history — in plain Markdown.
- Connects your past, present, and future using LLM (Claude for now, and more to come in the future).
- Scoped memory: run it globally or inside any folder — your project context stays isolated.
- Extensible: add your own slash‑commands or connect external APIs.
- Local‑first: your data stays on your machine.
🤩 Quick examples
ai...Meet Aissist - your personal AI command line sidekick
Most AI tools live in the cloud.
Aissist lives with you — right in your terminal.
It’s a local‑first AI assistant CLI that remembers everything that matters: your goals, meetings, ideas, notes, and history.
When you ask it something, it actually knows your context.
🧩 What it does
- Stores your life context — goals, notes, history — in plain Markdown.
- Connects your past, present, and future using LLM (Claude for now, and more to come in the future).
- Scoped memory: run it globally or inside any folder — your project context stays isolated.
- Extensible: add your own slash‑commands or connect external APIs.
- Local‑first: your data stays on your machine.
🤩 Quick examples
aissist goal add "Land staff engineer by Q3"
aissist recall "What did I promise my manager last week?"
aissist propose now
It instantly connects the dots — no dashboards, no tabs, just you and the terminal.
⚡ Why it matters
We’ve hit peak AI clutter — endless web dashboards that forget who you are.
Aissist flips that. It’s your personal AI memory layer, designed for developers who want AI that actually knows them.
🧰 Tech stack
- TypeScript + Node.js
- Markdown + Chroma Vector Store
- LLMs: Claude / GPT / local models
- Extensible via JSON config and plugins
🚀 Ideal for
- Developers who live in the terminal
- Indie makers running multiple projects
- Productivity obsessives tired of chat silos
- Anyone who wants a local AI that feels like part of their OS
💬 Behind the build
I built Aissist because I got tired of context resets. Every AI chat felt like amnesia.
Your own notes, history, and goals should be the prompt.
So I made a CLI that treats your machine like your memory.
🐙 Try it
npm install -g aissist
aissist init
Open‑source on GitHub → github.com/albertnahas/aissist
💡 The dream
Aissist will soon evolve into an ecosystem of skills — AI agents that use your personal context, not someone else’s dataset.
Think of it as the brain behind your local workflows.
Built with care by Albert Nahas
🤠 Connecting your past, present, and future — one command at a time.