Ctrl+Shift+3 CLI (cs3)

Terminal client for Ctrl+Shift+3. Catch up on the feed, search, read comments, check your wall and pings, change account settings, and post plain-text thoughts.

Mac / Linux:

curl -fsSL https://ctrlshift3.com/CLI/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell):

irm https://ctrlshift3.com/CLI/install.ps1 | iex

Or grab a zip from Varieties, unzip, and open the launcher. Log in with your site username (or email) and password.

Run cs3 with no arguments for the interactive menu. cs3 install-path copies the binary somewhere you can put on your PATH.

go build -o cs3 ./cmd/cs3

Site release zips: make release (output under dist/).

• cs3 - interactive menu
• cs3 login / cs3 logout - sign in or out (logout ends the CLI session on the server)
• cs3 whoami - signed-in username
• cs3 feed - latest main-feed posts; pick a number to read and comment
• cs3 post <id> - one post and its comments
• cs3 post create - plain-text thought (end the body with a line that is only .)
• cs3 mine - your posts; view, edit, or delete when allowed
• cs3 post edit <id> / cs3 post delete <id> - edit or delete a thought
• cs3 wall - your profile wall
• cs3 quote @user - someone else's wall (when you see "N after their name)
• cs3 pings / cs3 pings past - inbox and opened pings
• cs3 search ... - global search (posts, people, Clicks)
• cs3 click search [slug] [query...] - search posts inside one Click you belong to
• cs3 settings / cs3 settings get / cs3 settings set ... - account prefs
• cs3 install-path - install a copy for PATH

Comments are multi-line. Finish with a line containing only .. Skip with b then . where prompted.

Copyright (C) 2026 Billy Wilcosky

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

See LICENSE for the full GPLv3 text.