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Butterfish is open source under the MIT license; you supply your own OpenAI or compatible API key.
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- Butterfish is open source under the MIT license; you supply your own OpenAI or compatible API key.
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Butterfish Shell is an open-source CLI that adds AI prompting to bash and zsh on macOS and Linux. Commands starting with a capital letter send shell history and context to OpenAI-compatible APIs for explanations, command suggestions, and lightweight agent-style task execution.
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Butterfish is open source under the MIT license; you supply your own OpenAI or compatible API key.
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Yes. Butterfish has an ongoing free plan. Butterfish is open source under the MIT license; you supply your own OpenAI or compatible API key.
Butterfish is listed as free. No paid plan with a published price was found.
API or developer access is mentioned. Uses OpenAI or compatible APIs via an API key stored locally after first run.