ai-is-working

A fake AI coding agent CLI — for fun.

ai-is-working pretends to be an autonomous codebase analysis agent. It scans your project, prints plausible-looking "reasoning", progress bars, hypotheses, and tool calls — but never modifies a single file. Great for demos, screenshots, pranks, or watching your terminal look productive while you grab coffee.

Install / Run

No install required:

npx ai-is-working

Or install globally:

npm install -g ai-is-working
ai-is-working

Usage

npx ai-is-working                              # default auto mode
npx ai-is-working --mode=Nuxt --believable --chaos
npx ai-is-working --dense
npx ai-is-working --prompt

Flags

| Flag | Description | | --- | --- | | --mode=<name> | Pretend the project uses a specific framework (e.g. Nuxt, Next, Remix). Defaults to auto. | | --believable | Tones things down for a more realistic-looking session. | | --chaos | Cranks the chaos up — more dramatic hypotheses, more tool calls. | | --dense | Faster pacing, more output per second. | | --prompt | Occasionally asks you questions instead of silently "reasoning". |

Behavior

• ✓ scans project files
• ✓ skips .env, keys, certs, credentials
• ✓ pretends to reason
• ✓ asks questions only with --prompt
• ✗ never modifies files

Why?

Because watching a terminal produce confident-sounding nonsense at 30 lines per second is funny.

License

MIT © mskwon1