Use the Workbench Terminal Assistant to quickly generate commands or scripts - Elastic Compute Service

Generate O&M commands and scripts with the LLM-powered Terminal Assistant in Workbench.

Overview

Note

Terminal Assistant is currently available for a free trial.

Terminal Assistant uses the Qwen LLM. After you connect to an instance with Workbench, you can generate commands, analyze log output.

AI command generation Forgot a command? Use AI command generation to create it.	AI command explanation After running a command, use AI command explanation to interpret the output.

If you forget a command, use AI command generation to create it.

Connect to an ECS instance with Workbench.

See Connect to an Instance using Workbench.
On the right side of the command line, click Agent, or right-click and select AI Command Assistant. Describe the desired operation and press Enter. If the generated command meets your needs, click Insert Command and press Enter to execute it.

To disable this feature, click the icon in the lower-right corner. Go to AI Settings > Shell and turn off AI Command Assistant.

Generate a command to find files that contain "log" in the current folder

The following figure shows how to generate a command that searches for files containing 'log' in the current directory.

After running a command, click the icon at the end of the output to get an explanation.

Disable this feature: To hide the icon, use one of the following methods:

Method 1: In the right-click menu, deselect AI Command Explanation.
Method 2: Click the icon in the lower-right corner. Go to AI Settings > Shell and turn off AI Command Explanation.

Explain the command find . -name "*log*" and its output

The following figure shows the explanation for find . -name "*log*" and its output.