Instassist Release

2025-12-28 // release

Instassist is a ‘popup’ TUI for quickly sending queries / instructions to AI agents with minimum friction, e.g.:

query: count the number of common lines in file1.txt and file2.txt
query: weight in lbs of 80ml of water
action: organize the images in this directory by their content
action: kill and restart any local dev webservers

Instassist prompt

Readers will note that using coding agent CLIs are overkill for quick queries, but consider first that the coding agent subscription plans we’re all using are massively subsidized and far cheaper per token than direct API access. 🤷‍♂️

Instassist response

I for one agree with the frontier labs that adoption of these tools should be as frictionless as possible, Instassist is written in that spirit and saves me from thinking too much about how to invoke the massive intelligence surplus available to me. I’ve installed it as a TUI in Omarchy and a MacOS automator action for quick access.

Installation and use

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dvroom-dev/instassist/master/install.sh | bash

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