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tldr

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Summarize any text into a concise one-line TL;DR. Perfect for quickly understanding long documents or articles.

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# tldr

Summarize any text into a concise one-line TL;DR. Perfect for quickly understanding long documents or articles.

## Installation

This is a CmdForge tool. Install it from the registry:

```bash
cmdforge install tldr
```

## Usage

The `tldr` tool accepts text input via stdin and outputs a concise one-line summary.

### Basic Usage

```bash
# Summarize text directly
echo "Long article text here..." | tldr

# Summarize a file
cat lengthy-document.txt | tldr

# Summarize command output
curl https://example.com/article.html | tldr

# Combine with other tools
cat research-paper.pdf | pdftotext - - | tldr
```

## Arguments

This tool has no custom arguments.

## How It Works

The `tldr` tool uses a simple one-step pipeline:

1. **AI Summarization** (step_1): Sends the input text to the `opencode-grok` AI provider with instructions to generate a concise one-line summary
2. **Output**: Returns the generated TL;DR summary

## Dependencies

This tool has no external dependencies beyond the CmdForge runtime and the configured `opencode-grok` provider.

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