toast
Unix re-imagined for the AI era
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- Target Audience
- DevelopersBackend DevelopersIndie Hackers
- Platforms
- CLI
About toast
Command line tools for composing AI and software Unix style. We call it Unix re-imagined. To make an iMessage bot: iMessage bot toast 'reply friendly'
Product Insights
toast provides a CLI-based framework for developers and indie hackers to build AI agents and automated workflows using a Unix-style syntax. The tool supports local inference on Mac hardware via Apple Intelligence and Qwen3-Coder-Next, maintaining script consistency across different AI providers.
- Native CLI platform for seamless Unix-style command composition.
- Support for free local AI inference on Mac via Apple Intelligence integration.
- Provider-agnostic shell scripts that function regardless of the underlying AI model.
- Specialized capabilities for creating communication bots and system analysis via natural language.
Ideal for: Developers and indie hackers can use toast to build AI agents and iMessage bots using familiar Unix-style commands and local Mac resources.
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Free inference on Apple
LinuxToaster included appled which uses Apple Intelligence as a FREE AI inference provider on Mac computers. toasted works on Mac computer with more memory and runs Qwen3-Coder-Next locally. As with every other provider, your shell scripts do not change: ps aux | toast 'what is going on here' works no matter which provider you use.
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Unix reimagined for the AI era is a fascinating concept. Toast bringing CLI composability to AI agents and pipelines could change how developers think about automation workflows.
@chaudharyarun5797 you are right. Using toast everyday, it can read log files so I do tail -f /var/log/whatever.log | toast 'anything remarkable' | squawk squack is like slack but for AI.. further up are other toasts listening