Simple AI

Simple AI (simple-ai-chat) is a command-based AI chat application that supports both the web and CLI, aimed at providing users with an easy and simple AI experience. It can use advanced large language models (LLMs) from multiple companies: OpenAI, xAI, Google AI, Anthropic, and Ollama models.

Text generation, image generation, and vision models are supported. Features like function calling and the Model Control Protocol (MCP) are also supported.

The application is deployed at simple-ai.io.

For bugs or suggestions, please report them to the repository's GitHub Issues page.

Quick Start

1. Web interface
   https://simple-ai.io

2. CLI
   Install: npm i simple-ai-chat -g
   Start: simple-ai-chat or sc
   Start CLI will also start the MCP client.
   npm package: simple-ai-chat

3. Web CLI
   https://cli.simple-ai.io
   The CLI interface in the browser, no installation needed.

4. MCP client
   Install: npm i simple-ai-chat -g
   Use smcp to start the client service.
   The mcpconfig.json file is located in the ~/.simple folder.

Documentation

The documentation of user manual is available at simple-ai.io. In the webpage, there is a little dot on the bottom right corner, click it to open the back page. Alternatively, you can use the command :store use "Simple AI Documentation" to enable the data to AI, and ask it.

Full documentation is available at simple-ai.io/docs.

CLI Interface

cli.js is for the command-line interface.

• Setup with npm package

Instll from npm package
npm i simple-ai-chat -g

Start the CLI with npm package command simple-ai-chat or sc

Check version
sc [-v|--version]

Update
npm install simple-ai-chat -g

Note: Start the CLI interface will also start the MCP client.

• CLI commands

Use the VI as editor for input
:vi

Exit
:exit

• Development

Start the CLI
node cli.js

Debug
sc [-d|--debug]

Change server base URL
By default the CLI will communicate with simple-ai.io server.
To change the server base URL use the command: sc [-b|--base-url <base_url>]

MCP Client

mcp.js is for the MCP client.

Start the MCP client
node mcp.js

Configure the MCP client
Use mcpconfig.json located in the ~/.simple folder to setup the MCP connection.

npm package start
After installing the npm package, start with the command
smcp

Work with Docker MCP Tookit
Install Docker and setup the MCP Tookit.
Use mcpconfig.json.docker.example to connect.

Local Installation

0. Prerequisites
   OpenAI API key (get from https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys)

1. Install the requirements.
   npm install

2. Create .env and setup it.
   Create .env from .env.example

3. Run setup.sh to initialize.
   bash setup.sh

4. Build and run the app.
   npm run build
   Then use npm run dev or npm start

License

Simple AI License © 2023 simple-ai.io

You can fork this code and deploy it on your own machine for non-commercial use.
Commercial use of the software, or any part of it, is not permitted, and neither is
offering a product that competes with it, free of charge or not.

Portions of this project are based on code from OpenAI and are provided under the MIT License.

Originally Forked from https://github.com/openai