{"repo":"permacommons/chabeau","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau","clone":"git clone https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau.git","description":"OpenAI-API compatible terminal chatbot and MCP client in Rust","language":"Rust","stars":37,"topics":["chatbot","rust","tui","mcp","mcp-client"],"license":"CC0-1.0","category":"mcp-servers","readme_excerpt":"Chabeau - Terminal Chat Interface Chabeau is a full-screen terminal chat interface that connects to various AI APIs for real-time conversations. Chabeau brings the convenience of modern chat UIs to the terminal with a focus on speed, ergonomics, and sensible defaults. It is not a coding agent, but preliminary support for the Model Context Protocol is in development. This makes it possible to connect Chabeau with various local and remote services as well. Table of Contents - Features - Getting Started - Install - Authenticate - Launch - Working with Providers and Models - Session Management - Configuration - MCP Servers - Character Cards - Personas - Presets - Appearance and Rendering - Keyboard and Workflow Tips - Architecture Overview - Development - License Features See it in action - Message retry - Presets - Themes - User message editing - Assistant response editing - Character cards - In-place refinement - Syntax highlighting - Code block selection - Complex tables - MCP tool calls - Inspecting MCP requests The MCP server shown in the videos above is \"MCP Research Friend\", a Permacommons project. Full feature list - Full-screen terminal UI with real-time streaming responses - Markdown rendering in the chat area (headings, lists, quotes, tables, callouts, horizontal rules, superscript/subscript, inline/fenced code) with clickable OSC 8 hyperlinks - Modal pickers and inspectors temporarily suspend hyperlink rendering to keep the screen clean - Built-in support for many com","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/permacommons","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/permacommons/chabeau/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}