Hello guys sorry for interrupting but i have created a console toll (will rename it to ikohna latter) that uses php-shell from http://jan.kneschke.de/projects/php-shell/ and i have created a repo kodev for experimental kohana stuff. You can check it out it works like the famous script/console from the RoR world, it has tab completion etc, actually it is a the php shell it self with kohana env added so i can work straight from the terminal. I know that you have oil but if you like you can check out https://github.com/sirfilip/kohanadevelopment just clone cd in and ./console.