AI-powered CLI tool that analyzes your project and recommends open-source libraries from GitHub

I built plugai because I kept forgetting to add libraries I'd genuinely want in a new project logging, testing, HTTP clients until three weeks in when refactoring got painful. plugai scans your project's tech stack (Node, Python, Go, Rust, Java, PHP, Ruby — whatever you've got), sends the stack + file structure to an LLM, and gets back ranked recommendations (Critical/Useful/Optional). The part I cared about most: it doesn't stop at the AI's opinion it pulls real GitHub star counts for every suggestion, so you can tell "this is a well-established library" from "the model just made this up." Then you pick what to install, right from the TUI. Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Groq, Ollama, local proxies, etc.), so you're not locked into one provider. It's early actively improving test coverage, error handling, and CI right now — so bug reports and feature requests are very welcome. Would love to hear what you'd want it to catch that it doesn't yet.

One thing that would make this really useful for me: a flag to filter recommendations by license type. Lots of projects have strict requirements around MIT vs Apache vs GPL and having to check each suggestion manually is a chore. Maybe something like `--license MIT` or a config file where I can blacklist certain licenses upfront.

PluagAI

Scan your stack, get AI library picks ranked by GitHub stars

Scan your stack, get AI library picks ranked by GitHub stars