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xpln

About

A Go CLI that explains terminal output and errors in plain English. Rules first, optional LLM fallback. It does not generate commands and it does not run anything.

Category

Developer Tools
Industry

CLI
Year

2026
Timeline

2 weeks
xpln
Problem

A stack trace or a refuse-to-connect line is obvious once you have seen it fifty times. The first time it just sits there. Chat tools want to write the next command for you.

Solution

Pipe the output or run xpln last. A local rule set names the failure. If it cannot, an optional model can talk. Nothing executes. Nothing is invented as a shell line.

Result

A small binary you can keep next to git and docker. Public at github.com/abdillahinur/xpln.

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