Splash FAQs

Question 1

What is Splash and what is its main purpose?

Accepted Answer

Splash is a shared console environment that allows AI and human users to interact with various shells. Its main purpose is to provide persistent shell sessions, real-time command visibility, and multi-shell management, significantly enhancing AI's ability to execute complex, multi-step workflows.

Question 2

How does Splash improve AI workflows, especially for PowerShell?

Accepted Answer

Splash is transformative for AI workflows by maintaining persistent shell sessions. For PowerShell, this means expensive module imports (like Az) are paid only once per session, allowing subsequent cmdlets to run in milliseconds. AI can also work with live .NET object graphs, enabling complex data manipulation and multi-step tasks without re-fetching data.

Question 3

What shell types are supported by Splash?

Accepted Answer

Splash supports a variety of popular shell types, including bash, PowerShell (pwsh), and cmd.exe. This flexibility allows AI and users to work within their preferred command-line environments.

Question 4

Can users monitor and interact with the AI's console in real-time?

Accepted Answer

Yes, Splash provides full transparency by opening a real, visible terminal window. You can see every AI command as it executes, view its output in real-time, and even type into the same window yourself or send keystrokes (like Ctrl+C or 'y'/'n') to busy commands.

Question 5

How does Splash handle multiple consoles and working directories?

Accepted Answer

Splash automatically manages multiple console sessions, each tracking its own current working directory (cwd). If an active console is busy, the AI can be auto-routed to a sibling console of the same shell family, started at the source console's cwd, ensuring immediate execution and consistent context for commands.

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