Piping Input

The CLI reads from stdin, making it easy to pipe content from files and other commands.

Pipe a file

cat article.md | pod summarize

The file contents are passed to the prompt as the content variable (or the first variable that accepts stdin).

Combine piping with variables

You can still pass other variables alongside piped input:

cat article.md | pod summarize --topic "machine learning"

Chain prompts together

Pipe the output of one prompt into another:

cat article.md | pod summarize | pod tweet-thread

This summarizes an article and then generates a tweet thread from the summary.

Use with other commands

echo "Hello world" | pod translate --language spanish

git diff HEAD~1 | pod code-review

curl -s https://example.com/article | pod summarize

Next Steps

• Writing Prompts — Learn how prompts are structured
• CLI Commands — Full CLI reference