pull

A clipboard-first CLI tool designed for rapid "grab → paste → think" development loops.

Go 1.25 MIT License

Overview

Pull is deliberately opinionated: it moves useful content into your clipboard, fast. It is designed specifically for AI/LLM workflows, static-site tooling, and rapid iteration.

üìã Clipboard-First

No need to pipe to `pbcopy` or `xclip`. The clipboard is the default destination.

üö´ Git Aware

Automatically respects `.gitignore` rules when recursively pulling directories.

Installation

Install directly via Go:

go install github.com/phillip-england/pull@latest

Files & Directories

Pull recursively reads files and directories, cleaning up empty lines and adding headers for context.

pull main.go
pull src/ components/

Note: By default, ignored files (like `node_modules` or `.env`) are skipped. Use --includeIgnore to force inclusion.

Fetching URLs

You can pull the raw HTML/text body of a URL directly into your clipboard.

pull href github.com/phillip-england
pull href https://example.com docs.bun.sh

Append & Prepend

Instead of overwriting your clipboard, you can add context to what is already there. This is extremely useful for building complex prompts for LLMs.

Flag	Description
`--append`	Adds the new content after the current clipboard contents.
`--prepend`	Adds the new content before the current clipboard contents.

Example: Pulling source code and a webpage into one payload.

pull src/handlers
pull --append href example.com

Output Options

Emit (Stdout)

If you want to pipe the content elsewhere instead of the clipboard, use `emit`.

pull emit | sed 's/foo/bar/' | pbcopy

Write to File

Dump the current clipboard contents directly to a file.

pull write output.txt

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