index

A command-line tool for summarizing or extracting content from web pages, files, videos, and standard input. It also includes commands for video keyframes, local transcription, a browser-connected daemon, and finding free models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize a URL or file, extract content from a video, save video scene changes as PNG images, run local speech transcription, manage its local browser daemon, or find working free models.
Why use it?
It gives scripts and terminal users one consistent way to turn different kinds of input into summaries or structured output. Progress and errors go to a separate stream, so results remain suitable for pipes and automation.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/steipete/summarize/index
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/summarize
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 687 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00687
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00344
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00069

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2524cd0b1e50, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

index scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/commands/index.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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 YouTube URL, direct video URL, or local video file 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:

Flag Purpose
--json Stable JSON envelope on stdout. Disables streaming.
--no-color Strip ANSI escapes from output.
--theme <name> Pick a CLI theme (SUMMARIZE_THEME env var also works).
--verbose / --debug Detailed progress on stderr.
--metrics off|on|detailed Token + timing metrics line. Default on.
--timeout <duration> Cap fetching + LLM calls. Accepts 30, 30s, 2m, 5000ms.
-V, --version Print version and exit.
--help Print rich help with examples.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 54 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2524cd0b1e50

Subscribe to this mod's changes

index is a command published in the GitHub repository steipete/summarize (6,588 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 687 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.