shai

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OVH built shai as an open-source terminal pair programmer, distinguished by treating the agent as a component: pipe a prompt in for automation with full conversation traces out, or run shai serve to expose the agent through OpenAI-compatible HTTP endpoints with SSE streaming and persistent sessions. The shell assistant mode hooks the user's shell so a failed command's context goes to the model and a fix comes back inline. Project context loads from a SHAI.md file at the repo root, custom agents are configurable with MCP servers and OAuth, and OVHcloud provides anonymous rate-limited access as the default provider. It is Apache-2.0, community-maintained under the OVH organization with active issues and CI, and installs via a curl script or cargo. The audience is terminal-first developers and teams wanting a self-hostable agent endpoint.