Windows Terminal on Windows 11 now features ChatGPT for all the shells

Recently, OpenAI released a ChatGPT app for Windows and now, Microsoft issued an update for Windows Terminal Canary that includes the AI bot. Windows Latest has took a run with it, but the first useful information is that this ChatGPT is not free. You need to prepare an API key that may include Github Copilot API, Azure’s OpenAI API or OpenAI’s own API.

How can ChatGPT help you in Windows Terminal?

First, apparently, the Terminal Chat will also work with Command Prompt, PowerShell, Azure Cloud Shell and WSL Ubuntu and will not be limited to those.

Of course, the Terminal Chat offers useful and direct information about the commands inside the shell and how to perform different operations inside it.

Also, the AI detects the contest and the shell you’re using to offer the right answers. It can be very useful when encountering an error in the terminal. Just paste the error message in the chat and the AI will provide a detail explanation on what the error is all about and how to fix it.

However, it seems that the AI has information limited to knowledge about the shell you’re using and the possible commands, it’s not a general chat bot.

You can export the conversation to a TXT file, but Microsoft says that it doesn’t store it anywhere.

How do I get Windows Terminal Canary?

We remind you that Terminal Chat is only available in the Canary version, but you can still download it from the GitHub page.

After you install the app, run it, click the arrow down menu button and select Terminal Chat.

Now comes the hard part, you will need to configurate one of the clients, either through GitHub Copilot, Azure OpenAI or OpenAI.

Lastly, you will need to add the API key and start using the Terminal Chat.

If the line command tools are pretty hard to use for some, now the AI can help you make sense of everything that happens in the shells.

What do you think about the new Terminal Chat? Let us know about your thoughts in the comments below.