  This whitepaper reports on Project CLAI (Command Line AI), which aims to
bring the power of AI to the command line interface (CLI). The CLAI platform
sets up the CLI as a new environment for AI researchers to conquer by surfacing
the command line as a generic environment that researchers can interface to
using a simple sense-act API, much like the traditional AI agent architecture.
In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of the platform in
detail, through illustrative use cases of new end user interaction patterns
enabled by this design, and through quantitative evaluation of the system
footprint of a CLAI-enabled terminal. We also report on some early user
feedback on CLAI's features from an internal survey.

Human-Computer Interaction;Artificial Intelligence