DevPilot AI 🤖

A lightweight CLI coding assistant similar to Claude Code, built from scratch without AI SDKs.

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+
• npm or yarn
• A Gemini API key
• ripgrep (for code search): brew install ripgrep (macOS) or apt install ripgrep (Ubuntu)

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/srikanta30/devpilot-ai
cd devpilot-ai

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the project
npm run build

# Make the CLI available globally (optional)
npm link

Usage

# Start interactive chat
devpilot chat --api-key YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY

🔧 Configuration

Environment Variables

export GEMINI_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"

CLI Options

devpilot chat [options]

Options:
  --api-key, -k     Gemini API key (can also be set via GEMINI_API_KEY env var)
  --model, -m       Gemini model to use (default: gemini-2.5-pro)
  --max-tokens      Maximum tokens for response (default: 4096)
  --help, -h        Show help

Contributors:

Srikanta Banerjee