Npcsh from Indiana-based research startup NPC Worldwide featured on star history (www.star-history.com)

Indiana-based startup NPC Worldwide’s npcsh — an AI-augmented shell that turns your terminal into an intelligent, agent-powered workspace — was highlighted in The Starlet List on star-history.com. npcsh extends the traditional bash environment with ReAct-style agent loops and multi-LLM support, letting users issue natural-language commands that are routed to specialized agents (NPCs) and tools. It ships with purpose-built agents such as corca (an MCP tool-calling agent for software workflows) and guac (an interactive Python executor), plus a rich macro set for tasks from multimodal vision and image editing to voice chat, semantic search and GUI automation. The project is MIT-licensed and actively maintained. For the AI/ML community, npcsh is significant because it blends agentic reasoning, tool use and persistent developer context into a single, extensible CLI. Technical highlights include Jinxs (Jinja-based execution templates) for reusable tool composition, .npc/.ctx formats for agent and team contexts, ChromaDB-backed embeddings and RAG, and a knowledge graph layered over PostgreSQL/SQLite for structured state and history. It supports many LLM backends (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama, vLLM, LiteLLM, etc.) and introduces SQL-model integration (nql functions) that lets SQL queries call NPCs to analyze or transform data — a promising pattern for embedding LLM-driven intelligence directly into data pipelines and developer workflows.