allenbrain
A command line for allenbrain.
allenbrain is a single pure-Go binary. It reads public allenbrain data
over plain HTTPS, shapes it into clean records, and prints output that pipes
into the rest of your tools. No API key, nothing to run alongside it.
The same package is also a resource-URI driver,
so a host program like ant can address
allenbrain as allenbrain:// URIs.
Install
go install github.com/tamnd/allenbrain-cli/cmd/allenbrain@latest
Or grab a prebuilt binary from the releases, or run
the container image:
docker run --rm ghcr.io/tamnd/allenbrain:latest --help
Usage
allenbrain page <path> # fetch one page as a record
allenbrain page <path> -o json # as JSON, ready for jq
allenbrain page <path> --template '{{.Body}}' # just the readable body text
allenbrain links <path> # the pages it links to, one per line
allenbrain --help # the whole command tree
Every command shares one output contract: -o table|json|jsonl|csv|tsv|url|raw,
--fields to pick columns, --template for a custom line, and -n to limit.
The default adapts to where output goes (a table on a terminal, JSONL in a
pipe), so the same command reads well by hand and parses cleanly downstream.
This is a fresh scaffold. It ships one example resource type, page, wired end
to end. Model the real allenbrain records in allenbrain/ and declare their
operations in allenbrain/domain.go; each one becomes a command, an HTTP
route, and an MCP tool at once.
Serve it
The same operations are available over HTTP and as an MCP tool set for agents,
with no extra code:
allenbrain serve --addr :7777 # GET /v1/page/<path> returns NDJSON
allenbrain mcp # speak MCP over stdio
Use it as a resource-URI driver
allenbrain registers a allenbrain domain the way a program registers a
database driver with database/sql. A host enables it with one blank import:
import _ "github.com/tamnd/allenbrain-cli/allenbrain"
Then ant (or any program that links the package)
dereferences allenbrain:// URIs without knowing anything about allenbrain:
ant get allenbrain://page/<path> # fetch the record
ant cat allenbrain://page/<path> # just the body text
ant ls allenbrain://page/<path> # the pages it links to, each addressable
ant url allenbrain://page/<path> # the live https URL
Development
cmd/allenbrain/ thin main: hands cli.NewApp to kit.Run
cli/ assembles the kit App from the allenbrain domain
allenbrain/ the library: HTTP client, data models, and domain.go (the driver)
docs/ tago documentation site
make build # ./bin/allenbrain
make test # go test ./...
make vet # go vet ./...
Releasing
Push a version tag and GitHub Actions runs GoReleaser, which builds the
archives, Linux packages, the multi-arch GHCR image, checksums, SBOMs, and a
cosign signature:
git tag v0.1.0
git push --tags
The Homebrew and Scoop steps self-disable until their tokens exist, so the first
release works with no extra secrets.
License
Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.