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Frequent CLIs is a searchable list of the commands you use most often. Pick one and it types it into the app you’re using, or opens a new terminal window with the command ready to go. No more retyping.
Frequent CLIs palette

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Open it

Press ⌃ ⌥ ↩ from any app.

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How it works

1

Focus your target

Focus wherever you want the command to go: a terminal, an editor, a chat box.
2

Open the palette

Press ⌃ ⌥ ↩. Your saved commands float up as a list.
3

Pick one

Choose with the arrow keys or a click. The command is typed into the focused app, exactly as if you’d keyed it yourself.

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Two modes (press Tab to switch)

  • Insert (default): types the command into the focused app.
  • Open in Terminal: opens a fresh terminal in your default folder and runs the command there. Great for claude, codex, or a dev server you want in its own window.
Insert-and-run. Mark a command with the ↩ badge and Frequent CLIs presses Return for you after inserting it, so a one-keystroke summon can launch a build, a deploy, or a dev server outright.

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Configuring commands

Settings → Tools → Frequent CLIs:
  • Add as many commands as you like, each with a Title, the Command text, and a chosen icon. Click ✎ (or double-click a row) to edit, drag to reorder, or press ⌘E from the palette to edit the highlighted command.
  • Toggle the per-command insert-and-run (↩) behavior.
  • Open in Terminal, default folder: the directory that mode starts in.
  • Also skip Claude’s folder-trust prompt on YOLO launches: when a command runs claude --dangerously-skip-permissions, Dax marks the folder trusted in ~/.claude.json (a backup is saved first) so Claude drops straight in instead of showing its trust banner. Off shows the normal one-time prompt.

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Privacy

Entirely local. Your commands are stored on your Mac and either typed into the focused app or run in a terminal you opened. They never leave the machine.