Drop in your shell history. Get back the aliases you should have written months ago, ranked by the keystrokes they save.
| Alias | Type | Definition | Seen | Keystrokes saved | Actions |
|---|
Sift reads a copy of your shell history and finds the commands you
type over and over. For every repeated command it writes the alias
or shell function you would have written yourself, then ranks them
by how many keystrokes each one saves across all the times you have
already run it. Copy the ones you want into your
.zshrc or .bashrc and stop retyping them.
It is built for anyone who has spent a few years in the same
terminal and built up habits without automating them: a
git log incantation with six flags, a
docker run with the same mounts and ports, an
ffmpeg transcode. You know you should alias those. Sift
works out which ones are actually worth it.
~/.zsh_history or ~/.bash_history.No. Sift is a Go program compiled to WebAssembly that runs inside your browser tab. Your file is read locally and never sent over the network. Open your browser's network panel while you use it: there is no request.
Yes. It parses plain .bash_history and zsh history in
both its plain and EXTENDED_HISTORY (timestamped)
forms, and it stitches back together commands that span multiple
lines with a trailing backslash.
That becomes a shell function instead of a plain alias. Sift groups
commands that share every token except the last, so fifty
git commit -m "..." lines with fifty different messages
count as one candidate and get a function with a
$1 parameter.
No. Any command that looks like it carries an inline credential (a
--password, --token,
--api-key, or a mysql -p<value>
style flag) is dropped before proposals are built, so a copied
snippet never bakes in a secret.
For each proposal it is the length of the command minus the length of the short alias name, multiplied by the number of times you ran it. Every row shows the exact numbers behind its total.