ccline: type plain English instead of figuring out jq syntax — AI at the zsh prompt

[jianshuo]

Hey jq community! 🔧

jq is incredibly powerful, but let's be honest — the syntax is hard to remember for anything beyond basic queries. I built something that lets you describe what you want in plain English.

It's ccline — natural language at the zsh prompt.

What it does

ccline hijacks zsh's command_not_found_handler. Type something that isn't a real command — a description, a question — and it asks Claude AI. Answer renders as Markdown. Press Enter to run.

$ extract all unique values of the "status" field from api.json
→ jq '[.[].status] | unique' api.json
→ [press Enter to run]

$ filter array of objects where age is greater than 30 and select name and email
→ jq '[.[] | select(.age > 30) | {name, email}]' data.json
→ [press Enter to run]

$ merge two json files together
→ jq -s '.[0] * .[1]' file1.json file2.json
→ [press Enter to run]

$ pretty print all keys at the top level
→ jq 'keys' data.json
→ [press Enter to run]

Just describe what transformation you need — no more guessing at jq syntax.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jianshuo/ccline/main/install.sh | bash

Requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY.

→ https://github.com/jianshuo/ccline