Download and install the latest version of Filestar.
Right click on one or more Sixel file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type show in the search box.
Press Run.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i photo.sixel -c "show" (how).
Let your AI agent show SIXEL
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine.
Install Filestar and add it to your agents:
npm install -g filestar
filestarcli agent install
Then ask your agent:
“Use Filestar to show SIXEL in my Downloads folder”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i photo.sixel -c "show"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent show SIXEL?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i photo.sixel -c "show" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
Created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), SIXEL is a bitmap image format in an escaped sequence (seen as six pixels high and one pixel wide). You have to convert it into a more accessible format if you don’t have a DEC terminal to view it.
