About Oh Shell!
We're on a mission to transform how engineering teams handle incidents by turning chaotic terminal sessions into structured, searchable knowledge.
Our Mission
Every day, engineering teams lose valuable institutional knowledge when incidents happen. Critical debugging steps, command sequences, and decision-making processes are scattered across terminal histories, chat logs, and individual memories.
Oh Shell! was born from the frustration of repeating the same debugging steps and the realization that we could capture and structure this knowledge automatically. We believe that every incident response session contains valuable insights that should be preserved and shared.
Our goal is simple: Turn every incident into a learning opportunityby automatically generating comprehensive, searchable runbooks from your terminal sessions.
The Problem We Solve
Critical debugging steps are lost in terminal history
Teams repeat the same troubleshooting steps
Institutional knowledge walks out the door
Manual runbook creation is time-consuming
Our Values
The principles that guide everything we build
Simplicity First
We believe the best tools disappear into your workflow. Start recording with a single command.
Team Knowledge
Every engineer's experience contributes to collective wisdom. We amplify team learning.
Privacy & Security
Your data is yours. We build with security and privacy as foundational principles.
Developer Love
Built by developers, for developers. We understand your pain points and build solutions you'll love.
Our Story
Oh Shell! started as a side project during a particularly frustrating incident response session. After spending hours debugging a production issue, we realized we had no way to capture the valuable troubleshooting steps we had just performed.
The next time a similar incident occurred, we found ourselves repeating the same debugging process from scratch. That's when we knew there had to be a better way.
We built Oh Shell! to solve our own problem: automatically capturing terminal sessions and turning them into structured, searchable runbooks that the entire team could benefit from.
Built for Engineers
Oh Shell! is built by a team of engineers who have lived through countless incident response sessions. We understand the chaos, the pressure, and the need for better tools.
Our CLI tool integrates seamlessly with your existing workflow. No new processes to learn, no complex configurations to manage. Just start recording and let AI do the heavy lifting.
We're committed to building tools that engineers actually want to use—tools that make their lives easier and their teams more effective.
Meet the Team
A small team with big ambitions to transform incident response
Engineering Team
Former SREs, DevOps engineers, and platform developers who've lived through the chaos of incident response.
Product Team
Product managers and designers focused on creating intuitive experiences that engineers love to use.
Community
Open source contributors and community members who help shape the future of Oh Shell!.
Ready to Transform Your Incident Response?
Join thousands of engineers who are already using Oh Shell! to build better runbooks and preserve institutional knowledge.