Show HN: Gopilotty – Agent for Interactive Terminal (github.com)

Gopilotty is an open-source "agent for interactive terminal" demonstrated on Hacker News: a chatbot that can actually run and interact with terminal programs like vim, Ruby REPLs and sqlite. It’s distributed as a small Go utility (go install github.com/goverture/gopilotty@latest) and runs locally; you supply an OpenAI API key (export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...) and start it with gopilotty. A demo video shows the agent driving real TTY sessions, effectively letting an LLM operate within a shell and interact with stateful, interactive programs rather than just executing one-off commands. For AI/ML practitioners and dev tooling folks this is notable because it closes the gap between language models and real-world developer workflows: automated editing, live REPL exploration, database queries, and other interactive sessions become controllable by an agent. Technically, it implies the project orchestrates PTY-style I/O to let an LLM see and send keystrokes to processes, and it uses OpenAI as the model backend. Key implications include faster prototyping and new workflow automation possibilities, but also obvious risks—API costs, unreliable model actions, and security concerns when giving an LLM shell-level access—so sandboxing and careful permissions will be essential for practical use.