Please consider an official ChatGPT CLI

Hi OpenAI team,

I’m a ChatGPT Plus subscriber and I have a feature request that I believe would significantly improve the developer experience.

I would love to have an official ChatGPT CLI that allows Plus subscribers to authenticate with their ChatGPT account and use ChatGPT directly from the terminal.

To be clear, I’m not asking for free API access or unlimited API credits. I understand that the API is a separate product with its own pricing.

Instead, I’m suggesting an official terminal client that uses the same ChatGPT account and subscription, with the same usage limits that already apply to ChatGPT Plus.

Why this would be useful

Many developers spend most of their day in the terminal.

Imagine something like:

chat

or

chat "Explain this error"

chat /review .

chat /fix src/main.js

chat /commit

Some features that would be incredibly useful:

• Native terminal chat.
• Project analysis.
• Code review.
• Git integration.
• Explain compiler/runtime errors.
• Review diffs before applying changes.
• Continue conversations started in the ChatGPT web app.
• Access to the models available for the user’s subscription plan.

Why not just use the API?

Because this is a different use case.

Many of us don’t want to build applications with the API—we simply want to use the ChatGPT product we already subscribe to from another interface.

Today, the options are:

• Use ChatGPT in the browser.
• Pay separately for API usage.

An official CLI would bridge that gap while still respecting ChatGPT Plus usage limits.

I honestly believe this could become one of the most popular developer features OpenAI has ever released. Tools like terminal-based AI assistants have become an essential part of many developers’ workflows, and an official ChatGPT CLI would fit naturally into that ecosystem.

Would anyone else use this? I’d love to hear what the community thinks.

Thanks for reading!