What it does

lucinate is a text-based chat client that runs in your terminal. You save connections to an OpenClaw gateway, a Hermes Agent profile or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, pick an agent, and chat with streaming responses and rendered markdown. It is designed to work without a mouse, though the mouse is supported for scrolling and copying. Beyond plain chat it shows tool call cards for what an agent is running, runs shell commands locally with ! or on the gateway with !!, lets you browse and restore sessions, and loads local agent skills as slash commands. Routines let you save a multi-step prompt sequence and replay it, and OpenClaw users can also manage scheduled cron jobs from the terminal. There are non-interactive commands too: lucinate send prints a single reply to standard output for scripts, and lucinate chat opens the interface already pointed at a chosen agent. It is licensed under Apache 2.0 and installs with Homebrew, an install script or go install.

Capabilities

Connects to OpenClaw, Hermes Agent profiles and OpenAI-compatible endpoints
Streaming replies with markdown rendering and tool call cards
Create and switch agents, and browse or restore sessions
Local agent skills as slash commands, plus replayable routines
Run shell commands locally with ! or on the gateway with !!
Scriptable one-shot mode through lucinate send

When to use it

You already run an OpenClaw gateway or Hermes profile and want a terminal client for it.
You want a terminal-only chat front end for a local model server such as Ollama.
You need to pipe an agent's reply into scripts or cron jobs.