Chat

praisonai chat [OPTIONS] [PROMPT]

$ praisonai chat "hi" --theme dark --no-color
warning: praisonai chat does not implement --theme, --no-color yet; the value was ignored.

# Literal text
praisonai chat --append-system-prompt "Always answer in French"

# Read the suffix from a file (@file form)
praisonai chat --append-system-prompt @policy.md

export PRAISONAI_APPEND_SYSTEM_PROMPT="Reply in strict JSON, no prose."
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# Guardrails preset
praisonai chat --guardrails strict "Draft a public API note"

# Guardrails with a validator prompt (comma survives — one string, not a list)
praisonai chat --guardrails "Be accurate, cite sources" "Summarise the release"

# Knowledge — comma-separated sources are split into a list
praisonai chat --knowledge docs/,notes.md "What did we decide about caching?"

# Planning + web together
praisonai chat --planning auto --web true "Compare Postgres vs SQLite for our use case"

# Reflection loop for a self-critique pass
praisonai chat --reflection true "Write a launch tweet"

# Explicit disable (bool coercion from string)
praisonai chat --caching false "One-off question, don't cache the answer"

echo "$STACKTRACE" | praisonai chat "Explain this"

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praisonai chat "Hello, how can you help me today?"

praisonai chat --model gpt-4o "Explain machine learning"

praisonai chat --memory "Remember my name is Alice"

praisonai chat --session abc123

praisonai chat --json "Summarize this text"

praisonai chat --append-system-prompt "Be brief. No preamble."

praisonai chat --guardrails strict "Draft a public API note"

praisonai chat --knowledge docs/,notes.md "What did we decide about caching?"

praisonai chat --planning auto --web true "Compare Postgres vs SQLite for our use case"

praisonai chat --no-rules "Hello, ignore project rules"

if ! praisonai chat "Summarize the changelog" >/dev/null; then
  echo "chat failed — check credentials or provider status" >&2
  exit 1
fi

- name: Smoke-test chat
  run: praisonai chat "Say hello" > /tmp/chat.out
  env:
    OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}

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