# cli-chat

Sends completions to OmniRoute chat models from the terminal, streams responses, and starts an interactive REPL session.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 970 installs · ★ 81243
- Author: cheaper-inference
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/cheaper-inference/OmniRoute/tree/HEAD/skills/cli-chat/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/cli-chat

## What it does

The skill adds three commands: `omniroute chat [prompt]` for one-off requests, `omniroute repl` for interactive dialogue with session resumption, and `omniroute stream [prompt]` for streaming output. Supports all OmniRoute providers, combo routing, and system prompt configuration via `-s` or `--system` flags. You can pass text from a file (`--file`), stdin (`--stdin`), or directly as an argument.

Flags let you specify model (`-m`), temperature, `max-tokens`, `top-p`, reasoning effort (`--reasoning-effort`), and thinking budget (`--thinking-budget`). Streaming supports `--raw`, `--debug`, and `--save` to write output to a file. REPL can resume a previous session with `--resume <session>`, and `--no-history` disables history in the chat command.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add cheaper-inference/OmniRoute --skill cli-chat -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/cli-chat/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/cli-chat/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add cheaper-inference/OmniRoute --skill cli-chat -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/cli-chat/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add cheaper-inference/OmniRoute --skill cli-chat -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/cli-chat/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install cheaper-inference/OmniRoute cli-chat
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/cli-chat/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add cheaper-inference/OmniRoute --skill cli-chat -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/cheaper-inference/OmniRoute --path skills/cli-chat
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/cli-chat/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add cheaper-inference/OmniRoute --skill cli-chat -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/cheaper-inference/OmniRoute/tree/HEAD/skills/cli-chat/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- send a request to an LLM from the terminal without writing a script
- stream model responses in real time
- start an interactive dialogue with history and session resumption
- switch between OmniRoute providers and combo routes
- pass system prompt and generation parameters via flags

## Example prompts
- Send a question from `question.txt` to `gpt-4o` and save the answer to `answer.md`
- Start a REPL with model `claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022` and system prompt 'You are a text editor'
- Stream a response to 'Explain how async/await works in JS' with temperature 0.7

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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## Overview

Send chat completions, stream responses, and start an interactive REPL session from the CLI. Supports all OmniRoute providers, combo routing, and system prompt configuration.

## Quick install

```bash
npm install -g omniroute   # or: npx omniroute
omniroute --version
```

## Subcommands

### `chat [prompt]`

**Flags:**

- `--file <path>`
- `--stdin`
- `-s, --system <prompt>`
- `-m, --model <id>`
- `--max-tokens <n>`
- `--temperature <t>`
- `--top-p <p>`
- `--reasoning-effort <level>`
- `--thinking-budget <tokens>`
- `--combo <name>`
- `--responses-api`
- `--stream`
- `--no-history`

**Example:**

```bash
omniroute chat [prompt]
```

### `repl`

**Flags:**

- `-m, --model <id>`
- `--combo <name>`
- `-s, --system <prompt>`
- `--resume <session>`

**Example:**

```bash
omniroute repl
```

### `stream [prompt]`

**Flags:**

- `--file <path>`
- `--stdin`
- `-m, --model <id>`
- `-s, --system <prompt>`
- `--combo <name>`
- `--max-tokens <n>`
- `--responses-api`
- `--raw`
- `--debug`
- `--save <path>`

**Example:**

```bash
omniroute stream [prompt]
```
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