Install intelli-shell with Homebrew

Project links

• Homepage
• Repository

Commands and aliases

• intelli-shell

Project history

The GitHub repository was created in January 2023. Early public releases in March and May 2023 show the project beginning as a focused terminal productivity tool, while later 3.x releases expanded its template, suggestion, shell-integration, and AI features. The project documentation grew into an mdBook hosted on GitHub Pages.

Adoption history

IntelliShell spread through direct install scripts, standalone binaries, Homebrew, Nix, and Arch packaging. Its official README advertises support for Bash, Zsh, Fish, Nushell, and PowerShell, which helps explain why it is packaged as a cross-shell tool rather than as a plugin for one shell ecosystem.

How it is used

The normal workflow is interactive: users bookmark commands from the terminal, search them through keybindings, fill `{{variables}}`, and import or export reusable command libraries. Project-local `.intellishell` files let teams share task recipes without adding a separate task runner.

Why package nerds care

For package nerds, IntelliShell is part of the post-Atuin wave of shell-history-adjacent tools: it does not replace chronological history, but turns repeated command lines into structured data. It is also a tidy Rust CLI packaging case because it ships one binary, cross-shell integration, completions, and prebuilt release assets.

Timeline

• 2023: The repository was created and early 0.1/0.2 releases were published.
• 2025: The 3.3 release series was published through GitHub releases.
• 2026: The 3.4 release series continued the tool's cross-shell command-library workflow.

Related projects

• The docs explicitly compare IntelliShell with built-in shell history and Atuin. Its TLDR import feature also places it near tldr-pages, cheatsheet tools, and command-snippet managers.

Sources

• Official README, official mdBook, GitHub release metadata, GitHub repository metadata, and Homebrew formula metadata.