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san: Boost Terminal Productivity with an Open‑Source AI Agent

san lets founders run AI‑powered commands straight from the terminal, streamlining coding and automation tasks without leaving the CLI.

From the repo · “Open-source AI agent. Lives in your terminal.”

intermediate⏱ 30 minutes💵 Free (open-source)
67 stars+2★ this week35 forksGoGuide quality 8/10 · reviewed Oct 14Updated 10/22/2026100% free · open source
What it is

Use the San AI agent in your terminal to automate tasks with code.

Real use case example

"A founder wants to automate welcome emails to new Stripe customers. She installs San, configures a few lines of code in her terminal, and sets up a Notion database to store customer info. When a new Stripe customer signs up, San runs the automation and sends a tailored email."

Best insideClaude DesktopCursorCodex CLI
When to use it
  • •When you need to automate repetitive tasks in your terminal
  • •When you want to integrate AI capabilities into your command-line workflow
  • •When you're looking for a customizable, open-source automation solution
Ready-to-paste prompt
san run --task='greeting' --input='name=John' to automate a greeting task with a custom input
Heads up: Ensure you have Go (version 1.17 or later) installed on your system before attempting to install and run San
Saves to your device
Use with Claude
New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install
Claude Code
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/san && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/san/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/san/SKILL.md
Open in another AI app

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How san: Boost Terminal Productivity with an Open‑Source AI Agent works
Codeflow
Free to inspect

San: Boost Terminal Productivity with an Open‑Source AI Agent is a very large Go project (~121k lines across 734 code files, plus 30 test files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, Apache-2.0 license, has a test suite.

Size
Very large codebase
~121k lines · 734 code files · days to read — use, don't read
Setup
Developer setup
A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.
Runs on
Go
Needs API keys (.env)
Go 94%HTML 3%JavaScript 1%CSS 1%
Where to start reading
  1. 1
    README.md
    Start here — what it does and how to install it
  2. 2
    AGENTS.md
    The instructions the AI actually follows
  3. 3
    cmd/san/main.go
    Where the program starts running
  4. 4
    go.mod
    Dependencies and the commands it exposes
  5. 5
    .env.example
    The API keys and settings you must provide
What's in each folder
internal/Core code — the actual logic732 files
site/Frontend / UI11 files
cmd/Command-line entry points9 files
docs/Documentation81 files
examples/Examples you can copy1 files
notes/Folder6 files
tools/Helper scripts4 files
tests/Tests — proof it works36 files
READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksExamples includedApache-2.0 licenseUpdated this month
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Details
Creator
genai-io
Language
Go
Category
automation
Published
9/5/2024

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