Feature request: Dry run mode and No Test mode

[Evidlo]

This is a really neat project and I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more attention.

• a --dryrun mode which simply prints the script to be executed
• a --notest mode which skips testing. Useful for simple scripts so we don't need to wait so long

From my experiments with deepseek, the generated script usually functions perfectly but the generated test often fails.

[statico]

Thanks! I'm glad you found it. --print will print the script without executing it.

But more broadly, I built this before I discovered Simon Willison's llm project, which I think encompasses a lot of functionality of this. Using his tool, plus rewriting the core loop of this in Python or Bash, would probably reduce the code by 95% 😭

For example:

$ LLM_MODEL=deepseek-r1:70b llm -x 'bash script that uses imagemagick to convert each png in input to a 256x256 png in output dir'

#!/bin/bash

INPUT_DIR="./input"
OUTPUT_DIR="./output"

mkdir -p "$OUTPUT_DIR"

for file in "$INPUT_DIR"/*.png; do
    if [ "$(file --mime-type -b "$file")" = "image/png" ]; then
        filename=$(basename "$file")
        convert "$file" -resize 256x256 "PNG64:6:$OUTPUT_DIR/$filename"
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
            echo "Successfully converted $filename to 256x256"
        else
            echo "Failed to convert $filename"
        fi
    fi
done

echo "Conversion completed. Check output in $OUTPUT_DIR for results."