Claude CLI Tool

Overview

Claude CLI is a command-line interface tool written in Rust that allows you to interact with Anthropic's language model (Claude) directly in your terminal.

Features

• Interaction with the Claude.
• Support for multi-turn conversations.
• Accepts code inputs

Prerequisites

Before using Claude CLI, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

• Rust installed on your system.
• API key from Anthropic (stored in the CLAUDE_API_KEY environment variable): export CLAUDE_API_KEY=<api-key>

Installation

To use Claude CLI, clone the repository and build the project using the following command:

cargo install claude_cli

Usage

• To launch run: claude
• For an instant query, run with a prompt wrapped quotation marks : claude '<query here>'
• Multi-line support - To enter multiple lines to a question wrap your query in three quotation marks ('''). Example:

claude '''turn this into a python function: 
fn print_hello_world() {
    println!("Hello, World!");
}
'''

Coming soon

• Conversation history - ability to store and return to previous conversations
• Query customisation - adapt and customise query parameters