glimpse

Glimpse is an AI-driven Go CLI that turns source code into Slidev presentations.

Features

• Interactive CLI flow (project path, theme, model, language, output file)
• Non-interactive mode via flags for CI/CD and scripts
• Multi-provider AI support:
  • OpenAI (gpt-*)
  • Gemini (gemini-*)
  • Anthropic (claude-*)
  • Local LLM (local, local/<model>, ollama/<model>)
• Slidev theme validation and auto-install for npm themes
• Progress bar with ETA during AI analysis
• Automatic Slidev startup option after generation
• Recursive source crawler with documentation-first prioritization

Terminal behavior:

• Linux/macOS: colored ANSI output enabled by default
• Windows release binaries: plain fallback mode enabled automatically

Requirements

• Go (version from go.mod)
• git
• node + npm (required to run Slidev and auto-install themes)

For releases:

• gh (GitHub CLI)

Installation

git clone https://github.com/Zafer83/glimpse
cd glimpse
go mod tidy
go build -o glimpse ./cmd/glimpse

Usage

Interactive mode

./glimpse

Non-interactive mode (flags)

./glimpse \
  --path ./my-project \
  --model gpt-4o \
  --api-key "$OPENAI_API_KEY" \
  --theme seriph \
  --lang en \
  --output slides.md \
  --slidev

CLI help

./glimpse --help

Current flags:

-api-key string
      API key (or set GLIMPSE_API_KEY env)
-lang string
      Presentation language (default: de)
-local-url string
      Local LLM base URL (default: http://localhost:8080)
-model string
      AI model (e.g. gpt-4o, gemini-2.0-flash, local/qwen2.5-coder:7b)
-output string
      Output file name (default: slides.md)
-path string
      Project path to scan
-slidev
      Auto-start Slidev after generation (non-interactive)
-theme string
      Slidev theme (default: seriph)
-v
      Print version and exit
-version
      Print version and exit

Flag reference

Flag	Type	Default	Description
--path	string	(none)	Project directory to scan. Required for non-interactive mode. Supports relative paths and ~/.
--model	string	gemini-2.0-flash	AI model identifier.
--api-key	string	(none)	Required for cloud models; optional for local models.
--theme	string	seriph	Slidev theme name/package.
--lang	string	de	Output language for generated slides.
--output	string	slides.md	Output markdown filename.
--local-url	string	http://localhost:8080	Base URL for local LLM servers.
--slidev	bool	false	Auto-start Slidev after generation (non-interactive mode).
--version, -v	bool	false	Print version and exit.

Model examples

• OpenAI: gpt-4o
• Gemini: gemini-2.0-flash
• Anthropic: claude-3-5-sonnet-latest
• Local:
  • local (auto-detects or defaults to qwen2.5-coder:7b)
  • local/qwen2.5-coder:14b
  • ollama/llama3.2

Local LLM setup

If you choose a local model, Glimpse asks for Local LLM URL.

Recommended values:

• http://localhost:8080 for OpenAI-compatible servers (e.g. llama.cpp server)
• http://localhost:11434 for Ollama

Notes:

• Glimpse first tries OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions.
• If that fails, it falls back to Ollama /api/chat.
• API key is optional in local mode.

Quick Ollama setup

macOS / Linux:

./scripts/setup-ollama.sh

Windows (PowerShell as Admin):

.\scripts\setup-ollama.ps1

Slidev theme validation

Theme resolution behavior:

• Built-in direct names: default, seriph
• Short custom names are resolved as:
  • @slidev/theme-<name>
  • slidev-theme-<name>
• Full package names are accepted directly.
• If the package exists but is not installed locally, Glimpse installs it with:

npm install -D <theme-package>

Quality gate (local + CI)

Run the same checks locally that CI runs:

./scripts/check.sh

This verifies:

• gofmt formatting (gofmt -l must be empty)
• go test ./...
• go build ./cmd/glimpse

GitHub Actions CI (.github/workflows/ci.yml) runs this gate on:

• pushes to main
• pull requests

Build and release

Local build

scripts/build.sh

Optional explicit version override:

scripts/build.sh 1.2.3

Release script

scripts/release.sh <version|patch|minor|major>

Examples:

scripts/release.sh 1.0.0
scripts/release.sh patch
scripts/release.sh minor
scripts/release.sh major

What scripts/release.sh does:

1. Runs scripts/check.sh
2. Verifies you are on main with a clean working tree
3. Resolves release version (explicit or auto-bump from latest tag)
4. Cross-compiles binaries for:
   • darwin/amd64
   • darwin/arm64
   • linux/amd64
   • linux/arm64
   • windows/amd64
5. Generates checksums
6. Creates and pushes git tag
7. Creates GitHub release with artifacts

Artifacts are generated under:

• dist/v<version>/glimpse-v<version>-darwin-amd64
• dist/v<version>/glimpse-v<version>-darwin-arm64
• dist/v<version>/glimpse-v<version>-linux-amd64
• dist/v<version>/glimpse-v<version>-linux-arm64
• dist/v<version>/glimpse-v<version>-windows-amd64.exe
• dist/v<version>/checksums.txt

Slidev startup

After generating slides, Glimpse can start Slidev via:

npx --yes @slidev/cli <slides-file>

Environment variables

Variable	Purpose
GLIMPSE_API_KEY	API key for cloud models (alternative to --api-key)
UNSPLASH_IMAGE_URL	URL template for image keyword expansion ({keywords} placeholder)
NO_COLOR	Disable colored output
GLIMPSE_NO_ANSI	Explicitly disable ANSI escape output
FORCE_ANSI	Force ANSI output on Windows (advanced use)

Exit codes

Code	Meaning
0	Success
1	Runtime error
130	Interrupted by user (Ctrl+C)

Author

• Zafer Kılıçaslan

License

Licensed under Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.

All Go source files include Apache-2.0 header comments.