rustGPT/improvements.txt

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Your Rust CLI for AI conversations is well-structured and functional. Here are specific improvements to consider:
## Code Quality & Architecture
**1. Error Handling Enhancement**
- Use custom error types instead of `anyhow` everywhere for better type safety
- Add specific error variants for API failures, session errors, etc.
- Consider using `thiserror` for cleaner error definitions
**2. Configuration Management**
- Extract hardcoded values (max_tokens=4096, API versions) to a config module
- Add configuration file support (~/.gpt-cli-config.toml)
- Environment variable validation on startup
**3. Memory & Performance**
- Consider limiting conversation history size to prevent unbounded growth
- Add message truncation for very long conversations
- Implement lazy loading for session list when many sessions exist
## Functionality Improvements
**4. Enhanced CLI Features**
- Add `/export` command to save conversations to markdown/text
- Implement `/search` to find messages within current session
- Add message editing/deletion capabilities
- Support for conversation templates/presets
**5. Better Model Management**
- Add model aliases (e.g., "latest-gpt" → "gpt-5")
- Validate API keys for each provider on startup
- Show token usage/costs if APIs provide this data
**6. Session Enhancements**
- Add session tagging/categorization
- Implement session archiving
- Add conversation statistics (message count, tokens, etc.)
## Technical Robustness
**7. Network & Reliability**
- Add retry logic with exponential backoff for API calls
- Implement request timeout configuration
- Add connection pooling for better performance
- Support for streaming responses
**8. Security & Privacy**
- Encrypt stored sessions (optional)
- Add option to exclude sensitive sessions from persistence
- Validate/sanitize user inputs more thoroughly
## User Experience
**9. Interactive Improvements**
- Add syntax highlighting for code blocks in responses
- Implement better pagination for long responses
- Add keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+C handling, arrow key history)
- Support for multi-line input with improved editor
**10. Logging & Debugging**
- Add structured logging with different levels
- Include request/response logging (with API key redaction)
- Add timing metrics for performance monitoring
The codebase shows good Rust practices with proper error handling, clean separation of concerns, and maintainable structure. Focus on the configuration management and session enhancements first, as these would provide the most immediate value to users.