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VictorTaelin/AI-scripts
Some handy AI scripts
A collection of TypeScript CLI tools from Victor Taelin (of HVM/Bend fame) for AI-assisted coding workflows. The standout idea is HoleFill: you write `.?.` placeholders directly in your source files and the tool fills them in — no IDE plugin needed. Aimed at developers who want AI editing in the terminal without leaving their editor.
HoleFill's in-file placeholder syntax is genuinely clever — `.!.` lets you embed natural-language instructions right where the code should go, which is more precise than a chat window. The AskAI abstraction covers Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, and Fireworks under one interface, so you're not locked to one vendor. The `long` tool's codex loop (goal → work → board review → repeat) is a real agentic workflow, not just a wrapper around a single prompt. Coming from Taelin, the underlying ideas tend to be novel rather than derivative.
Documentation is thin to the point of being a liability — the README is a list of bullets and the AskAI.md is the only real reference; none of the tools explain their actual behavior or flags. No tests anywhere. The codebase is clearly a personal toolbox that gets pushed when it works for one person, which means breaking changes will happen without notice and issue support is essentially zero. The `long` tool especially needs more explanation of how the loop terminates and what 'board review' actually does before someone trusts it on a real codebase.