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TL;DR: go-tool-base’s generator doesn’t just scaffold a project once and walk away. It keeps a .gtb/manifest.yaml that describes your CLI’s command tree — names, flags, hierarchy — and regenerate rebuilds the wiring code to match it. Edit the manifest, regenerate, and the boilerplate follows. It turns CLI structure into something... [Read More]

TL;DR: Making a CLI tool usable by an AI assistant normally means writing a bespoke integration for each assistant. It doesn’t have to. Every tool built on go-tool-base ships an mcp command that exposes the whole command tree over the Model Context Protocol: command names become tool names, descriptions become... [Read More]

TL;DR: I kept writing the same Go CLI bootstrap code over and over: config loading, version checks, self-update, logging, auth. So I extracted it into a set of packages, used them on enough projects to be sure they were right, then forged them into a single library called go-tool-base and... [Read More]

I like Mediawiki, it is a simple tool capable of doing a lot and can be very flexible and easy to customise. However its not always the right solution! I had a situation where we needed to migrate away from using it for a combination of security and usability reasons.... [Read More]

Recently there has been an uptake in the use of Neo4j by the Data Scientists. This is a good thing! they are wanting to use the right tool for the job. However we need to run it inside our k8s cluster as a portable readable data source that has been... [Read More]