Explain terminal output with GPT-4 in one command.

TermPilot is a Rust-based CLI that pipes terminal output to GPT-4 and returns a concise explanation. Useful for debugging cryptic commands, understanding logs, and speeding up shell workflows. Open source, configurable, and dead simple.

record_output ls -la
explain

Terminal output:

-rw-r--r-- 1 user staff 1024 May 15 notes.txt

GPT says:

"This lists a file called notes.txt with read/write permissions, owned by 'user', size 1024 bytes, last modified May 15."

git clone https://github.com/YOURNAME/termpilot
cd termpilot
cargo build --release

cp target/release/termpilot /usr/local/bin/termpilot

function record_output() {
  "$@" 2>&1 | tee ~/.last_output
}

alias explain='cat ~/.last_output | termpilot'

• You'll be prompted for your OpenAI key on first run.
• It's saved to ~/.config/termpilot/config.toml
• Reset it anytime with:

termpilot --reset-key

MIT — open source and ready to fork.

Because shell commands are fast. But understanding what they just did shouldn't slow you down.

GPT, explain this mess.

Done.