Cli Tool for Ollama

Chat tools

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Did a bit of research (Gemini), and suggestions are:

• oterm: best all around, for general chat
• aichat: power-user choice, good for coding
• mods: nice, but more pure CLI tool
• elia: similar to oterm, but maybe better? If I can get it running…

oterm

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To install oterm, best to:

pipx install oterm

Evaluation:

• meh…
• the TUI is the one Claude Code generates for you, using Textual (I have same on my ‘palantir’ tool)
• whole bunch of things bother me:
  • pointless ASCII animation at start; was cool only the first time
  • hate the big fat buttons, pointless waste of TUI real-estate (esp. when there are keybinds for them)
  • it feels like a GUI application wearing TUI clothing

I could do better with my own Claude coding session in 1h… probably will.

mods

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Source: https://github.com/charmbracelet/mods

Assessment:

• pretty
• possible use, although I think I would prefer TUI

Huh! This is the first time I ran into this: the AI chat tool (or model?) got into what seems like infinite loop of generating more and more content, veering into further adjacent topic. I had to Ctrl-C after probably 10 minutes and 30 pages… Initial query was about which model would be best for coding, and I ended up at topic “OPERATIONAL PROTOCOL AGREEMENT: SYSTEMIC EPISTEMIC REVIEW (SER)”…!!

Other tools

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Honorable mentions:

• gollama - very cool TUI for managing loaded models