Manual/Get started
Welcome to moh
moh is a helper that lives inside your computer's terminal — the window where you type instead of clicking. You talk to it in ordinary language, and it does the work: it reads your project, edits files and runs commands, showing you every step.
Three ideas behind everything moh does
- It asks before it acts. Anything sensitive — changing a file, running a command — needs your approval first. You can say yes once, yes always, edit the action, or no. How the asking works →
- Your data stays on your machine. Your conversations, notes and settings are files in a folder on your own computer. Nothing is sent anywhere except to the AI service you personally choose. Where everything lives →
- You pick the brain. moh is not tied to one company. You connect the AI you prefer — or several, so that if one is unavailable, another steps in. Choosing a model →
A few words you will meet
| Word | What it means here |
|---|---|
| Terminal | The text window where moh runs. On a Mac it is the app called Terminal; on Windows it is the WSL window. |
| Project | The folder you open moh in. moh works inside it and asks before reaching outside. |
| Session | One conversation with moh, saved as a file so you can come back to it. |
| Provider | The company or program whose AI moh talks to — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, a model on your own computer… |
| Model | The specific AI you picked from a provider. You can switch at any time. |
| Tool | An action moh can take: read a file, edit one, run a command, open a web page. |
What it costs
moh is free and open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later licence) and comes as a single file you download and run. There is no moh account and nothing to subscribe to. You pay whoever runs the AI model — or use a subscription you already have, or run a model on your own computer and pay nothing per message.
How this manual is organised
Get started takes you from installation to your first real task. Everyday work covers what you will do most: approving actions, coming back to conversations, sharing files, and what moh remembers. Going further is for when you are comfortable — browsing, parallel tasks, automation, extensions. Reference holds the complete lists.
Tip
Each chapter stands on its own. If you only read one more, read moh asks before it acts — it is the part that makes moh safe to use on real work.
Written for moh 0.61. Inside moh, ctrl+h opens the built-in manual for your exact version.