Vanilla Ice Cream

A small terminal launcher for AI coding CLIs on macOS.

Quick Start

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/khbarkar/VIC/main/install.sh | bash

Then run:

vic

Update

vic update

What It Does

• Lets you pick an AI CLI
• Lets you pick a folder
• Opens a new iTerm2 tab
• Splits it into two panes
• Starts the selected CLI on the left
• Opens a shell in the same folder on the right

Supported launchers include Codex, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Kiro, Cursor, Copilot, and OpenClaw, as long as their CLI command is installed locally.

Manual Install

git clone git@github.com:khbarkar/VIC.git
cd vic
make install
vic

Config

VIC reads an optional config file from:

~/.config/vic/config.json

Example:

{
  "initial_folder": "~/private",
  "hidden_projects": ["SnakesInAK8s"]
}

If initial_folder is not set, VIC defaults to ~/private. If hidden_projects is set, those direct child folders are hidden from the TUI picker but left untouched on disk.

License

VIC is licensed under the GNU GPL v3. See LICENSE.