Show HN: LX Coreutils – pipeable tools enhanced by small local / cheap LLM calls
LX Coreutils Write a commit message from your diff, explain a scary command, turn plain English into a shell command — without leaving the terminal or pasting into a chat window. LX Coreutils is a suite of small, composable commands that each do one such job and pipe into the next. Runs on a local Ollama model by default — no API key, nothing leaves your machine.
- ▪LX Coreutils Write a commit message from your diff, explain a scary command, turn plain English into a shell command — without leaving the terminal or pasting into a chat window.
- ▪LX Coreutils is a suite of small, composable commands that each do one such job and pipe into the next.
- ▪Runs on a local Ollama model by default — no API key, nothing leaves your machine.
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LX Coreutils Write a commit message from your diff, explain a scary command, turn plain English into a shell command — without leaving the terminal or pasting into a chat window. LX Coreutils is a suite of small, composable commands that each do one such job and pipe into the next. Runs on a local Ollama model by default — no API key, nothing leaves your machine. Or point it at a hosted model (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Groq, +6) with one env var: each call is deterministic and tightly scoped, so a fast, cheap model costs a fraction of a cent. Either way, cold start < 15 ms.
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