Command reference

summarize is one binary with a handful of subcommands. The default subcommand is summarize itself — the one you use 99% of the time. The others wrap related tooling.

#Subcommands

• summarize — main command. Takes a URL, file, or stdin and produces a summary or extracted content.
• summarize slides — extract scene-change keyframes from a video URL into PNGs (and optional OCR text). Standalone version of the --slides flag.
• summarize transcriber — set up local ONNX transcription (Parakeet, Canary). Prints the env vars you need.
• summarize daemon — manage the local HTTP daemon that the Chrome Side Panel talks to. Subcommands: install, restart, status, uninstall, run.
• summarize refresh-free — scan OpenRouter :free models, write working candidates to ~/.summarize/config.json.

#Output discipline

All subcommands keep the same output discipline — straight from gogcli's playbook so pipes and scripts stay parseable:

• stdout: the result. Plain text, Markdown, JSON, or files (slides only).
• stderr: progress, prompts, warnings, and errors.
• --json produces a stable envelope on stdout.
• --no-color strips ANSI; --plain skips ANSI/OSC rendering for Markdown.

#Global behavior

These flags apply to almost every subcommand:

#Exit codes

summarize daemon and summarize transcriber may surface platform-specific exit codes from the underlying service install (launchd, systemd, schtasks); check --verbose output for the raw error.