Bashly Assistant GPT

[DannyBen]

Hey everyone 👋

I’ve put together a Bashly Assistant GPT to help with Bashly-related questions.
For convenience, you can access it here: https://bashly.dev/chat

It’s connected to the documentation and source code, and is designed to follow a “pause-and-confirm” approach (unless you request otherwise).

If you give it a try, I’d love to hear your thoughts on how well it works and where it could improve.

[meleu]

My very first query was about Custom Libraries source, which is one of the parts of the docs I wasn't able to follow very well.

First, let me share my expectation. I read the documentation and I still have two questions that I'd like to check if it would be able to answer me:

• where exactly should I put the libraries.yml (I'm assuming it should go in the root of the project, but not sure)
• what kind of argument should I use for NAME in the command bashly add --source NAME (I'm specially interested in the case of remote git repositories)

My question:

I want to create a "Bashly Custom Library".
My lib's name is going to be mtui, and it's going to be hosted on a public github repository.
How should start this project?

Its first answer wasn't good, it even mentions a broken link: https://bashly.dev/docs/customizing/libraries/

My second question was a bit more detailed:

I want clients of my library to be able to install it on their Bashly projects simply by using bashly add --source <mtui-github-repo>.

do I need to make something in my project to achieve this?

And the answer was slightly better, but still not accurate enough.

If you're interested in the whole conversation (with just these two questions and their answers) here's the link.

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Right after trying this conversation I actually read the output of bashly add --help. And after a bunch of trial-and-error I figured out how to bashly add a lib from github.

My conclusion is that the documentation is not clear enough, and that's why GPT is not able to give the right instructions.

[DannyBen]

Heh. Do you remember which model you used? Sounds like the hallucinations of GPT-5.

Perhaps we can add a "sample custom library" as a repo to the org, and then we can add an example in the examples section - this will make this crystal clear I am sure.

... or better yet - a Custom Library Template repo - that people can just clone and update?

[meleu]

I'm unable to identify the model used in that conversation (either the UI is intentionally hiding such info or I'm really dumb).

A Custom Library Template repo in the org would be awesome!

Many of the "production code" I'm currently using can be extracted to its own lib. So, I'm excited to make them public.

[DannyBen]

Many of the "production code" I'm currently using can be extracted to its own lib. So, I'm excited to make them public.

So you are talking about two different things:

1. A template custom libraries repo (minimal, not updating much)
2. A "Community Library" where people can upload their libraries

I will start the foundations for both.

[DannyBen]

We can continue this branch of the discussion in #676.