docs/tutorials/ask-in-the-terminal
Beginner4 min

Ask in the terminal

Four recordings of rec in a real terminal. Ask never executes. rec is the same binary as recall.

What you are looking at

Recordings of a real rec session. Vault and playbook hits skip the save prompt. Generated answers print source: recall agent. You copy or save. You run it.

01Start this project

Ask reads the local dev script and prints it. You run it.

rec — zsh
rec "start the project" prints pnpm dev from this repo. Ask does not run it.

02Start Postgres and migrate

A playbook with both steps. recall playbook run is what actually executes.

rec — zsh
rec "start postgres and run migrations" prints a playbook. Ask does not run it.

03Free port 3000

CAUTION. Ask prints the kill. You confirm the PID before you paste it.

rec — zsh
rec "free the process using port 3000" prints a CAUTION kill. Ask does not run it.

04Last week’s docker command

That's one you saved. Same line on any machine.

rec — zsh
rec "that docker command from last week" prints docker compose from the vault. Ask does not run it.
// what's next
→ Next.js Asks in more detail→ Docker and port 3000