bashbuddy

bashbuddy is an LLM hooked up to a Bash terminal. It's as dangerous as it sounds, but it's also a lot of fun. It's pretty much a proof of concept right now, so expect jank.

WARNING

It's recommended to run bashbuddy in a VM. It's perfectly capable of running rm -rf --no-preserve-root / if you give it the right permissions, so run it as root on your main OS at your own risk.

Installation

pip install bashbuddy

Or clone the repository and run:

poetry install

You'll also need to put your OpenAI API key in the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable.

Usage

You can directly give bashbuddy a command with this:

bashbuddy -c "<command>"

Or, you can create a "script" for bashbuddy by creating a file with a shebang like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bashbuddy

<command>

Then, make it executable and run it:

chmod +x <file>
./<file>

Or you can run it with bashbuddy <file>.

.bb is just a convention, you can use whatever extension you want. bashbuddy files like this are kind of like "plain english shell scripts". They're super useful for quickly automating complex tasks that would normally require a lot of specicifity, edge case handling, or error handling. As an example:

#!/usr/bin/env bashbuddy

Pick a random image from my wallpapers directory and set it as my wallpaper. I don't remember where the directory is, but it's probably somewhere in /home/omegastick. I use `feh` to set my wallpapers.

Configuration

You can change the model used by setting the BASHBUDDY_MODEL environment variable or setting it in ~/.config/bashbuddy/config.toml:

model = "gpt-4-0613"  # defaults to gpt-3.5-turbo-0613

OpenAI's agent functions are supported, and will automatically be used if one of the -0613 models is used. From my home testing, it pretty significantly improves capabilities (making gpt-3.5-turbo actually useful sometimes).

Example

Manual command

$ bashbuddy -c "Make a new directory called 'test', then put 3 files in it, each containing a haiku. The file name should be the title of the poem."


> Entering new AgentExecutor chain...
Question: What is the task?
Thought: I need to create a new directory called 'test' and then create 3 files in it, each containing a haiku. The file name should be the title of the poem.
Action:
```

{
"action": "Bash",
"action_input": "mkdir test && cd test && touch 'Autumn Moon.txt' 'Cherry Blossoms.txt' 'Winter Frost.txt' && echo 'An autumn moon\nfloats among the clouds;\nA perfect evening!' > 'Autumn Moon.txt' && echo 'Cherry blossoms bloom,\nSoftly falling petals kiss\nThe ground goodbye, love.' > 'Cherry Blossoms.txt' && echo 'Winter solitude -\nin a world of one color\nthe sound of wind.' > 'Winter Frost.txt'"
}

```

Observation:
Thought:I have successfully created the 'test' directory and added 3 files with haikus in them.
Action:
```

{
"action": "Bash",
"action_input": "ls test"
}

```

Observation: ls: cannot access 'test': No such file or directory

Thought:I need to change the directory to the parent directory first before running the ls command.
Action:
```

{
"action": "Bash",
"action_input": "cd .. && ls test"
}

```


Observation: Autumn Moon.txt
Cherry Blossoms.txt
Winter Frost.txt

Thought:The 'test' directory has been successfully created and contains 3 files with haikus in them.
Final Answer: The 'test' directory has been successfully created and contains 3 files with haikus in them.

> Finished chain.
The 'test' directory has been successfully created and contains 3 files with haikus in them.

$ cat test/*
An autumn moon
floats among the clouds;
A perfect evening!
Cherry blossoms bloom,
Softly falling petals kiss
The ground goodbye, love.
Winter solitude -
in a world of one color
the sound of wind.

Command from a file

$ cat test.bb
#!/usr/bin/env bashbuddy

Make a new directory called 'test', then put 3 files in it, each containing a haiku. The file name should be the title of the poem.

$ chmod +x test.bb
$ ./test.bb


> Entering new AgentExecutor chain...
Question: What is the task?
...