07/February/2025: Version 2.3-113 released

• Including admin companion client version number into API call as a preparation for better future backward compatibility of the API
• Including the option to send the machine's OS release number to the API for better tailoring the resonses to the specific machine's release
• Implemented command line option "-a" to allow sending OS release number to the API.
• Implemented command line option "-d" to des-allow sending OS release number to the API.

28/November/2024: Version 2.2-97 released

• Major optimization in dialogue history handling.
• Due to increased context window, now also remembering executed commands and its output and not only the conclusion.
  This leads to enhanced reasoning and better overall results in problem solution.
• Output of conversation history now also shows executed commands and its outputs.
• Enhanced handling of incompliant content.

24/September/2024: Version 2.1-87 released

• Added support for    Raspberry PI OS
• Added support for AARCH64 (ARM64) architecture.
• Added backward compatibility with RedHat 8.
• Separated backports for Debian 10 and Debian 11 into distinct packages to enhance security measures on Debian 11.
• Used darker color for conclusion output to be better visible on white background screens.

04/September/2024: Version 2.0-80 released

• Added backward compatibility to Debian 11 (Bullseye) and Debian 10 (Buster)

07/June/2024: Version 2.0 released

• Admin Companion client now uses port 443 for backend server connections to increase compatibility with standard firewall rules.
• Admin Companion client now uses domain api.admin-companion.ai.
• Now allows to define the maximum request token size (context window) on client side
  • Added default "max request token size" as a parameter to the configuration file.
  • "max request token size" can be temporarily changed with command line parameter -s
• Increased the maxium context windonw size from 4'000 to 120'000. This allows to work in much bigger context and with bigger files. Default is 8'000
• Now using GPT-4o, the latest and most powerful language model of OpenAI.
• Optimized handling of command line parameters.
• Bugfixes

10/May/2024: Version 1.1 released

• Improved error handling: Issues with the subscription or API key are directly displayed in the output now. So there is no need to dive into the client log file for these issues anymore.

21/December/2023: Version 1.0 released

• First publicly available release of Admin Companion client.

Search your needed download package in the table above and download it to your machine:
wget https://admin-companion.ayonik.de/static/downloads/<your needed package>
For example: wget https://admin-companion.ayonik.de/static/downloads/admin-companion_2.3-113_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i <your needed package>



• You can confirm the first question in the configuration procedure by pressing <Enter>, if you do not have a command called "ai" on your system.
• In the second question, insert the API key, which you retrieve from the API keys page on the Admin Companion web console.
• Make sure, your system can reach https://api.admin-companion.ai:443
• Call Admin Companion from within your shell:
  ai Are you there?


See installation in live (here with version 1.0-26):

Search your needed download package in the table above and download it to your machine:
wget https://admin-companion.ayonik.de/static/downloads/<your needed package>
For example: wget https://admin-companion.ayonik.de/static/downloads/admin-companion-2.3-113.el8.x86_64.rpm


sudo yum install <your needed package>
For example: sudo yum install admin-companion-2.3-113.el8.x86_64.rpm

• Request an API key from the API keys page on the Admin Companion web console.
• Search for the line
  ADMIN_COMPANION_KEY=""
  in the file /etc/admin-companion/admin-companion.cfg
  and insert the API code between the quotes.
• Make sure, your system can reach https://api.admin-companion.ai:443
• Call Admin Companion from within your shell:
  ai Are you there?


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