Assistant is a self-hosted bot service similar to Hubot (except it's not written in coffeescript!) that executes arbitrary commands to perform certain actions with a variety of adapters to allow it to run on any platform, simultaneously.

This is the shell adapter, which allows you to interact with your assistant through a super-simple interactive CLI.

$ npm install --save assistant-adapter-shell

It's not designed to be programatic. Just interactive. It's for you, the developer, not the script~er.

To get started, add the following to your assistant's package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "shell": "assistant-shell"
  },
  "assistant-adapters": {
    "shell": "assistant-adapter-shell"
  }
}

Next, install the relevant adapter like usual. Then, make sure your assistant is running (usually npm start) and execute the shell with npm run shell 😄

When you're done, leave the shell with exit or quit.