Tempest AI Assistant

Tempest AI Assistant integrates Claude, GPT, Gemini, and self-hosted LLMs into your SSH terminal — explain commands, debug errors, generate one-liners.

The Tempest AI Assistant is an in-app chat panel that knows what's happening in your SSH session. Ask it to explain a stack trace, generate a one-liner, debug a failing systemd unit, or draft a migration script — and pipe the answer straight into the terminal. Think of it as Claude / GPT / Gemini sitting next to your shell, with full context.

What it can see

The AI sees only what you give it — by default that's:

• The current command output you highlight

• Files you explicitly attach (drag-and-drop into the chat)

• Your typed question

It does not silently scrape your terminal history, your hosts list, or your keys. You stay in control of what reaches the model.

What it can do

• Explain: paste an error → get a plain-English diagnosis

• Generate: "give me a one-liner to find files modified in the last hour" → get the command, optionally one-click "run in terminal"

• Investigate: "the disk is full, show me the biggest directories" → get a du invocation, run it, AI sees the output and follows up

• Refactor: paste a Bash script → get an idiomatic rewrite, side-by-side diff

• Bridge to coding agents: combine with the Use AI Agents preset on a connection to drop straight into Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, or OpenCode on the remote host

Choose your model

Tempest doesn't lock you into one provider. Configure any of:

• Anthropic Claude (Sonnet, Opus, Haiku) — recommended default

• OpenAI GPT-4 / GPT-5 family

• Google Gemini

• Self-hosted — point at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp, your enterprise gateway)

Configure your API key once in Settings → AI and the assistant is available in every connection tab.

Privacy

• Tempest never proxies AI requests through our servers — they go directly from your device to the provider you configured.

• When you use a self-hosted model, prompts stay entirely inside your network.

• See How Tempest Protects Your Privacy for the full data-handling story.

Configurable temperature

Set the model temperature in Settings — lower for deterministic command generation, higher for creative refactoring suggestions.

Coding agents preset

The connection edit form has a Use AI Agents quick-config: pick Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, or OpenCode, give a working directory, and Tempest will cd <dir> && <agent> on connect — perfect for jumping straight into a coding session on a remote dev box.

See the dropdown next to the Startup Command field in any SSH host's edit form.

See also

• Kubernetes Profiles — pair the AI with kubectl for cluster troubleshooting

• Tempest Monitoring — when a gauge spikes, ask the AI what to do

• SSH Snippets — save AI-generated commands as reusable snippets